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Re:Linux 6.6 to Protect Against Illicit Behavior of Nvidia P... by colinsane on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @05:33PM (#37329434)
i'm out of the loop on this one. i did a good deal of HPC -- specifically electromagnetics simulation -- about a year ago and Spir-V worked OOTB for GPGPU on AMD processors. hell, i wrote my kernels in _Rust_ and they compiled and ran just fine (Embark Studio's `rust-gpu` target), which is about as edge-casey as i can imagine.

how is AI stuff tied to nvidia? what would make it difficult to port (or to be portable)?

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Re:Linux 6.6 to Protect Against Illicit Behavior of Nvidia P... by debugnik on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @07:09PM (#37330317)
AFAIK the vast majority of ML training/inference on the GPU runs on CUDA, and has done so for many years, while other vendor-specific GPU backends are slowly gaining support.

It doesn't help that AMD's equivalent open toolchain, ROCm, is barely even supported by their own GPU lineup.

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Re:Linux 6.6 to Protect Against Illicit Behavior of Nvidia P... by slavik81 on Thursday August 31, 2023 @12:47AM (#37332584)
FWIW, ROCm GPU support is getting better, particularly in the distro-provided packages. e.g. https://salsa.debian.org/rocm-team/community/team-project/-/...
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