3 ms·
It's endlessly fascinating to me how long it's taking for GPUs to be adopted for this kind of workload. I remember all the excitement around the GPGPU era, Open
by jcgrillo 4mo ago
It's endlessly fascinating to me how long it's taking for GPUs to be adopted for this kind of workload. I remember all the excitement around the GPGPU era, OpenCL, and eventually CUDA. That was like 15yr ago! Yes, GPUs can do a fantastic amount of computing. But it's really hard to make them do it efficiently. I think maybe the implicit assumption at the time was that something would come along that would make it easier. Despite continuous advances over the last decade+ it's still really hard.
I feel like we're about to learn a similar lesson with generative AI. Things don't always get easier/better/faster.