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Re:AMD is edging closer to breaking Nvidia's graphic dominance by shmerl on Thursday January 17, 2019 @07:17PM (#18935928)
Not CUDA itself, but lock-in of various libraries that are CUDA-only. No one stops you from making a library that works with OpenCL or Vulkan for example for compute purposes.
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Re:AMD is edging closer to breaking Nvidia's graphic dominance by alfalfasprout on Friday January 18, 2019 @01:59PM (#18941843)
No one stops you but it's a huge time investment. It's not only CUDA... it's the massive amount of optimized libraries NVIDIA provides. For example, CuBLAS (linear algebra libraries), CuDNN (libraries for deep learning). These things really need massive engineering teams to pull off and are very tied to the hardware.
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Re:AMD is edging closer to breaking Nvidia's graphic dominance by shmerl on Friday January 18, 2019 @03:13PM (#18942595)
So there should be combined effort to make such libraries that are cross hardware. If many people need it, why don't they pool resources and create open libraries like that?
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