What Makes AI and GPUs So Compatible?

Re:What Makes AI and GPUs So Compatible? by llukas on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @09:49PM (#15244413)

Sir, you contradict yourself - CUDA is software and NVIDIA invested in CUDA long time before anybody believed it would take off.

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Re:What Makes AI and GPUs So Compatible? by DannyBee on Thursday September 14, 2017 @12:27AM (#15245008)

Uh, no. Lots of people invested in things like cuda at roughly the same time. CUDA was also very clearly built to enable general fast math computation, and AI came much much much later

As GP says, this is some interesting revisionist history.

NVidia figured this out at the same time as everyone else.

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Re:What Makes AI and GPUs So Compatible? by llukas on Thursday September 14, 2017 @02:46AM (#15245490)

I still can run early CUDA programs unmodified. This is investment.

edit: on newest hardware, without recompilation

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Re:What Makes AI and GPUs So Compatible? by frozenport on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @11:24PM (#15244778)

A lot of people thought it woukd take off! Hell people were doing GPGPU with ps2!

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Re:What Makes AI and GPUs So Compatible? by arcanus on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @09:53PM (#15244436)

Cuda is a GPGPU paradigm. It was certainly not an investment in machine learning.

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Re:What Makes AI and GPUs So Compatible? by nightski on Thursday September 14, 2017 @10:40AM (#15248470)

Seeing as this https://developer.nvidia.com/cudnn exists and is widely used I'd say that isn't really true.

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Re:What Makes AI and GPUs So Compatible? by dragandj on Thursday September 14, 2017 @05:30AM (#15246253)

But all major Deep Learning frameworks use Nvidia-s cuDNN library. They provide lots of sugar, but the central thing is developed (or paid for if you prefer) by Nvidia.

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