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Re:AMD Funded a Drop-In CUDA Implementation Built on ROCm: I... by Certhas on Monday February 12, 2024 @11:23AM (#39346714)
They are focusing on HPC first. Which seems reasonable if your software stack is lacking. Look for sophisticated customers that can help build an ecosystem.

As I mentioned elsewhere, 25% of GPU compute on the Top 500 Supercomputer list is AMD. This all on the back of a card that came out only three years ago. We are very rapidly moving towards a situation where there are many, many high-performance developers that will target ROCm.

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Re:AMD Funded a Drop-In CUDA Implementation Built on ROCm: I... by ametrau on Monday February 12, 2024 @12:11PM (#39347423)
Is a top 500 super computer list a good way of measuring relevancy in the future?
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Re:AMD Funded a Drop-In CUDA Implementation Built on ROCm: I... by latchkey on Monday February 12, 2024 @12:44PM (#39347862)
No, it isn't. What is a better measure is to look at businesses like what I'm building (and others), where we take on the capex/opex risk around top end AMD products and bring them to the masses through bare metal rentals. Previously, these sorts of cards were only available to the Top 500.
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Re:AMD Funded a Drop-In CUDA Implementation Built on ROCm: I... by llm_trw on Monday February 12, 2024 @07:12PM (#39352508)
Yes it is, it's how cuda got it's dominance 10 years ago. Businesses don't release their source code, super computers are attached to labs and universities and have much better licenses for software, or publish papers about it.
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