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Re:NVIDIA GeForce driver deployment in datacenters is forbid... by binaryzeitgeist on Monday December 25, 2017 @01:23AM (#16002988)
What surprised me in the first place is why Tensorflow an "OpenSource" initiative by Google chose proprietary CUDA over "OpenSource" OpenCL.

Check Tensorflow issue 22 for more info.

Just sayin.

Re:NVIDIA GeForce driver deployment in datacenters is forbid... by solomatov on Monday December 25, 2017 @01:48AM (#16003063)
CUDA is superior to OpenCL. Also NVIDIA provides CuDNN, a proprietary library with very efficient implementation of deep learning primitives. If you want to train models faster, you have to use them.