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Re:AMD Reports Q1 2021 Earnings by floatboth on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @08:34AM (#26968611)
It's really disappointing that the GPGPU space isn't adopting Vulkan all that fast. These "compute specific" things such as OpenCL/CUDA/ROCm should not be necessary and should die. Just use Vulkan for fuck's sake.
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Re:AMD Reports Q1 2021 Earnings by rubatuga on Thursday April 29, 2021 @12:19AM (#26977434)
Libraries like cublas and cudnn help the GPU scheduler assign tasks to specialized blocks on the graphics card. Vulkan would slow this innovation down severely. Unless they make Vulkan extensions? I’m not too sure how that would work.

Personally I haven’t used CUDA, but if anybody could comment on its ease of use compared to Vulkan that would be great.

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Re:AMD Reports Q1 2021 Earnings by floatboth on Thursday April 29, 2021 @06:29AM (#26979408)
> help the GPU scheduler assign tasks to specialized blocks

Source? I can't find anything for '"cublas" scheduler'…

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Re:AMD Reports Q1 2021 Earnings by rubatuga on Saturday May 01, 2021 @09:31PM (#27011597)
The GEMM instructions are sent to Tensor Cores by the scheduler. The cutlass library is the open source version of cublas:

https://github.com/NVIDIA/cutlass

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Re:AMD Reports Q1 2021 Earnings by floatboth on Friday May 07, 2021 @06:34AM (#27074399)
Seems like you can leverage those via VK_NV_cooperative_matrix…
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