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CUDA is the result of years of NVIDIA supporting the ecosystem, some people likes to complain because they bought hardware that was cheaper but can't use it for
by withwarmup 3y ago
CUDA is the result of years of NVIDIA supporting the ecosystem, some people likes to complain because they bought hardware that was cheaper but can't use it for what they want to use it, when you buy NVIDIA, you aren't buying only the hardware, but the insane amount of work they have put into the ecosystem, the same goes for Intel, mkl and scikit-learn intelex aren't free to develop.
AMD has the hardware but the support for HPC is non-existent outside of the joke that is bliss and AOCL.
I really wish for more competitors to enter the market in HPC, but AMD has a shitload of work to do.
- runiq 3y agoYeah, that's a pretty shortsighted take of things. Do you really believe that Nvidia hasn't taken steps do make sure their moat is as wide as possible?
- Blammar 3y agoThe thing about owning the CUDA spec is that Nvidia can add new features quickly without having to argue with other hardware vendors. I find that a positive thing overall. Also, I choose to pay the ~$120 Windows tax once (per box), everything works very well, and I don't have the driver issues that some fraction of other users seem to have with Linux and Nvidia cards. Seems like a good use of my time.
- anon291 3y agoLiterally never had an issue with Nvidia and Linux in decades. Despite this, my windows installs have all sorts of issues.. as always
- arcanus 3y ago> AMD has the hardware but the support for HPC is non-existent outside of the joke that is bliss and AOCL. You are probably two years behind the state of the art. The world's largest supercomputer, OLCF's Frontier, runs AMD CPUs and GPUs. It's emphatically using ROCm, not just BLIS and AOCL. See for example: https://docs.olcf.ornl.gov/systems/frontier_user_guide.html https://docs.olcf.ornl.gov/systems/frontier_user_guide.html That's hardly non-existent support for HPC.
- 65a 3y agoAgreed...the main gap is support on consumer and workstation cards, which is where nVidia made headway, but that is starting erode super recently. ROCm works pretty well for me, I have had a lot more problems with specific packagers than the ROCm layer.
- aiunboxed 3y agoExactly, with NVIDIAs core focus on AI way before it was cool has lead to them being in this advantageous position. For AMD just being a price friendly competitor to Intel and Nvidia was the motto.