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CUDA won because AMD and Intel made a mess out of OpenCL, and Khronos had no vision to support anything beyond C99 dialect until it was too late. Doesn't matte
by pjmlp 6mo ago
CUDA won because AMD and Intel made a mess out of OpenCL, and Khronos had no vision to support anything beyond C99 dialect until it was too late.
Doesn't matter if it was closed, when the alternatives were much worse.
- zozbot234 6mo agoSYCL is the de facto successor to OpenCL that supports higher level languages. So the vision was and is there.
- pjmlp 6mo agoAs mentioned, Khronos only changed their mind when it was too late. I can also recite the whole story, the missteps in OpenCL 2. , OpenCL C++, the OpenCL 3.0 reboot, how SYCL came to, CodePlay only proper available implementation, Intel acquisition of CodePlay and everything else.
- physicsguy 6mo agoPlus NVIDIA clocked that it was also the developer library ecosystem and even now there just aren’t equivalents. The AMD rocFFT library wasn’t even complete compared to FFTW until very recently and cuFFT did that more than a decade ago