News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:Sorting with GPUs: A Survey by Eridrus on Monday September 11, 2017 @11:45AM (#15219365)
AMD is taking a stab at this with ROCm/HIP/HCC to try and get a slice of the machine learning market: https://rocm.github.io/languages.html

I wish them all the best, but I haven't seen much adoption yet. It's not particularly clear that this is the right path yet because folks are building special-purpose neural net accelerators, and those may not have the same programming model and may make this whole HIP thing irrelevant for ML.

I'm also not totally convinced software developers are ready to take advantage of something like this; developers are barely taking advantage of multiple CPU cores, let alone the more limited GPGPU environment.

There are no comments on this comment yet.