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Re:Nvidia CEO Introduces Nvidia Ampere Architecture, Nvidia ... by Klinky on Thursday May 14, 2020 @11:42AM (#23180861)
CUDA appears to have come out well before even OpenCL. I don't see why there would be expectation that nVidia would design their framework to work on a competitors product.
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Re:Nvidia CEO Introduces Nvidia Ampere Architecture, Nvidia ... by andromeduck on Thursday May 14, 2020 @01:31PM (#23182549)
Cuda was also a response to ATI's own efforts at a proprietary effort which they eventually have up on.
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Re:Nvidia CEO Introduces Nvidia Ampere Architecture, Nvidia ... by TomVDB on Thursday May 14, 2020 @02:58PM (#23183822)
ATI came out with CTM, which was just an assembler. CUDA was released a month or so after that. It was a full C compiler and already had a pretty large set of examples and library functions.

I downloaded CUDA about the day it was released, and used it for real some months later when I bought a 8600 GT GPU.

To call CUDA a response to CTM is too much praise for Nvidia, because it suggests that their response included cobbling a compiler and SDK in just a month. :-)

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