4 ms·
It is possible, but a) it is expensive as hell to get enough engineers whom you can prove in court have no exposure to the original software (most SWE's would g
by mandevil 3y ago
It is possible, but a) it is expensive as hell to get enough engineers whom you can prove in court have no exposure to the original software (most SWE's would get some exposure just naturally in college nowadays, leave alone at any sort of job) and b) CUDA is constantly changing and updating and so you need to have this expensive clean-room process going constantly or else you will fall behind.
The most famous case of clean-room reverse engineering is for the original BIOS chips back in the early 1980's, where the chips themselves couldn't change- they were hardware! It's going to be orders of magnitude more difficult to do that for software packages that change regularly.
- TehCorwiz 3y agoI disagree on Cuda changing constantly. The hardware is stable once sold and new devices are usually backwards compatible by at least a version or two. The API is also locked down for already deployed versions, can't go pulling the rug from paying customers. However, new versions of both hardware and Cuda do introduce new things that'll need addressed. I don't think it's much of a moving target though.
- Me1000 3y ago> it is expensive as hell Probably, but Nvidia's market cap suggests there's more than $2 trillion in reasons to front that expense.