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rvlobato@lemmy.ml to Open Source@lemmy.ml · 1 year ago

AMD Quietly Funded A Drop-In CUDA Implementation Built On ROCm: It's Now Open-Source

www.phoronix.com

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AMD Quietly Funded A Drop-In CUDA Implementation Built On ROCm: It's Now Open-Source

www.phoronix.com

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    After two years of development and some deliberation, AMD decided that there is no business case for running CUDA applications on AMD GPUs. One of the terms of my contract with AMD was that if AMD did not find it fit for further development, I could release it. Which brings us to today.

    From https://github.com/vosen/ZLUDA?tab=readme-ov-file#faq

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      So AMD already gave up on this, and if they hadn’t they’d have kept it proprietary?

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