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Re:Triton: Open-Source GPU Programming for Neural Networks by thebruce87m on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @01:27PM (#27986442)
Unfortunate name clash with NVIDIAs Triton Inference Server: https://developer.nvidia.com/nvidia-triton-inference-server
Re:Triton: Open-Source GPU Programming for Neural Networks by 6gvONxR4sf7o on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @02:47PM (#27987933)
The author commented on reddit about that (https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/otdpkx/n_i...)

> PS: The name Triton was coined in mid-2019 when I released my PhD paper on the subject (http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~htk/publication/2019-mapl-tille...). I chose not to rename the project when the Triton inference server came out a year later since it's the only thing that ties my helpful PhD advisors to the project.

Re:Triton: Open-Source GPU Programming for Neural Networks by king_magic on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @04:21PM (#27989238)
The author is unfortunately wrong. NVIDIA's Triton was referenced in marketing material as far back as 2018. https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-serves-deep-learnin...
Re:Triton: Open-Source GPU Programming for Neural Networks by 0x008 on Thursday July 29, 2021 @05:35AM (#27994552)
Are we sure that marketing article was not changed after the fact? The Nvidia Triton Release notes show 'Starting in release 20.03, TensorRT Inference Server is now called Triton Inference Server.' [0]

It kind of looks like the article just changed the heading later since in the article the docker images they refer to etc. are all still called 'tensorrtserver' which was the project's name before they changed naming in Release 20.03.

The OpenAI-Triton Author says on reddit: 'You can also look at the github history and you will see that there is no mention of the "Triton inference server" up until version 2.0, which wasn't out in 2019 (I ran `git reset --hard v1.9.0 ; grep -ir "triton" .`)' [1]

- [0]: https://docs.nvidia.com/deeplearning/triton-inference-server...

- [1]: https://old.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/otdpkx/n_i...

Re:Triton: Open-Source GPU Programming for Neural Networks by king_magic on Thursday July 29, 2021 @09:45AM (#27996453)
Eh, I suspect the author is mistaken here, but who knows, maybe that was updated after the fact? Hard to say who is right.
Re:Triton: Open-Source GPU Programming for Neural Networks by wyldfire on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @11:59PM (#27992646)
Confusingly similar: check

Same industry: check

Maybe the author should expect an incoming C&D. IIRC US is first-to-use, so NVIDIA would prevail?

Re:Triton: Open-Source GPU Programming for Neural Networks by cyberpunk on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @05:00PM (#27989636)
I'm sure Joyent used the word also for their Hypervisor [0]

0: https://www.joyent.com/smartos

Re:Triton: Open-Source GPU Programming for Neural Networks by 0x0EB0DA10 on Thursday July 29, 2021 @12:41AM (#27992837)
Also clashed with Triton[0], a demoscene group famous for its Crystal Dreams 2 demo, which featured zooming mandlebrot on 386 PC https://youtu.be/BLMUfBikxTY?t=182

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triton_(demogroup)

Re:Triton: Open-Source GPU Programming for Neural Networks by polynomial on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @01:42PM (#27986759)
My first thought exactly. This will cause nothing but confusion and Triton (the inference server) is well integrated into the space.

So it's especially weird to see it coming from OpenAI, and not a more random startup. It honestly makes no sense they would deliberately do this, unless there is some secret cult of Triton that is going on in the Bay Area world of AI/ML.

Re:Triton: Open-Source GPU Programming for Neural Networks by pontusrehula on Thursday July 29, 2021 @04:01AM (#27994037)
Maybe name it Trinitron. That name is not used so much anymore :)
Re:Triton: Open-Source GPU Programming for Neural Networks by dvcrn on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @08:47PM (#27991521)
Also name clash with Triton, a binary analysis framework - https://github.com/JonathanSalwan/Triton