Re:Export Controls on Advanced Computing and Semiconductor M...
by Aerroon on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @01:15PM
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And what would happen if Nvidia got banned? ROCm would take over. All the development resources would be going into that.
That's probably what's going to happen in China.
Re:Export Controls on Advanced Computing and Semiconductor M...
by nine_k on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @01:34PM
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ROCm likely won't take over, because of its flaws. Eventually, of course, either it or something else, would emerge as a solution.
But it will take time. Buying time is what this ban is trying to achieve. Slowing down the rivals.
Re:Export Controls on Advanced Computing and Semiconductor M...
by londons_explore on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @02:02PM
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I think you overestimate how long such a change would take.
If Nvidia was banned tomorrow, I think within 6 months another leader would emerge and be supported by all the big libraries.
Re:Export Controls on Advanced Computing and Semiconductor M...
by IshKebab on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @02:15PM
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ROCm is already supported by Pytorch apparently.
Re:Export Controls on Advanced Computing and Semiconductor M...
by londons_explore on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @06:55AM
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My understanding is that while it is theoretically supported, the vast majority of random pytorch projects you find on GitHub will need tweaks before they'll run in ROCm
Do you know that AMD makes powerful GPUs that even have a general purpose programming interface called ROCm? Now try to persuade ML practitioners to switch to that ftom NVidia GPUs and CUDA.