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by swerner 3d ago
Yes, unfortunately. Otherwise we could just implement all of SYCL and OpenCL on top of Vulkan and live happily ever after.
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by swerner 3d ago
TIL, I didn’t know that. I always assumed it came from level zero”, the Intel computer layer that ZLUDA was translating to before its developer was hired by AMD to target HIP.
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by swerner 3d ago
What domain do you think I was talking about?
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by swerner 3d ago
Oh, absolutely. Nvidia is the modern day “nobody gets fired for buying IBM”. The reason we’re still using Unix is not because it’s the best, but because it had to much inertia to let any alternative become its successor. Similarly, C and H
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by swerner 3d ago
Unfortunately, many of very good ideas end with “it’s open source, anyone can contribute” because very few actually do.
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by swerner 3d ago
Most modern graphics is compute. Pixar, Dreamworks, Sony, etc do not use Vulkan to render their movies. It’s CPUs or CUDA. “graphics people do not (and cannot) write CUDA kernels/shaders” is just not true at all. All it would take to v
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by swerner 3d ago
Outsider to what?
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by swerner 3d ago
If it helps you at all: “if you've never debugged a GPU synchronization error or kernel panic due to some GPU firmware bug or fought absolute shit profilers hunting for perf” I have done all of those things. As part of my full time job
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by swerner 3d ago
I don't think we're at a point yet where anyone would trust ZLUDA enough to ship commercial products that rely on it. I would be delighted though, if anyone can prove me wrong.
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by swerner 3d ago
I could post the GitHub URLs of all the shader code I wrote that’s running on countless GPUs right now, but what would it change? I’m still just a random guy on the internet with an opinion that happens to be different from your opinion. Yo
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by swerner 3d ago
To my knowledge, SPIR-V on Intel will stay, and be it only because it’s part of the OpenCL and Vulkan standards.
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by swerner 3d ago
They were maintained by Codeplay - paid for my Intel. Nvidia can make contributions anytime they want, and here is the problem: Nvidia does not want to. Until each vendor starts pitching in with contributing their backend to an open standar
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by swerner 3d ago
I’m too old to participate in internet pissing contests.
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by swerner 3d ago
If that is your standard, I do have an idea what I’m talking about.
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by swerner 3d ago
The problem with OneAPI is naming. It leads people to believe that is another competing standard where in fact is is simply just an implementation of a standard compliant SYCL compiler. If it just had been named “Intel SYCL compiler”, simil
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by swerner 3d ago
What do you mean by holistic? SYCL is an open versioned standard that allows for vendor specific extensions. The problem is not that there isn’t a proper standard, the problem is that many hardware vendors - or software developers simply do
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by swerner 3d ago
AI will take down Nvidia’s moat. When it becomes trivial to translate CUDA/PTX to HIP, SYCL or Metal, CUDA is no longer the moat, it becomes the intermediate representation.
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by swerner 7d ago
Life saving feature for ppl with ADHD. M
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by swerner 21d ago
It may have a different connotation in the US than in Europe. In US media I’ve only heard the term being used recently, in Europe it’s been around for decades. In Europe, “Antifascist” is a label that people groups use to describe themselve
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by swerner 21d ago
They’ve been doing this since the post-9/11 DHS initiative, at least.
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by swerner 1mo ago
I tried to get Copilot to port the Linux drivers for my HP CP1025 to macOS, but it failed. Even modern Linux can’t print to it any more, I had to put an older distribution on a RasPi and now I’m printing at reduced quality. It was crazy how
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by swerner 2mo ago
Cycles is getting direct code contributions from all major hardware vendors.
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by swerner 2mo ago
Unfortunately, Vulkan Compute doesn’t to all the things that OpenCL, SYCL, HIP or CUDA do.
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by swerner 4mo ago
https://burningman.org/global-events-groups/
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by swerner 4mo ago
If you think that’s dedication: I met Dominic (DA) who they interviewed in this article almost 20 years ago in the Spanish desert, where taught us Euroburners the art of MOOP cleanup. He’s been at it for a long time now.
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by swerner 4y ago
I’ve had a similar FAANG experience. They approached me, I made “no relocation” a non-negotiable condition from the start. We started talking, I did the marathon interview until late in the night (CET vs PT), put my formal application in th
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by swerner 5y ago
I would love to see a BeOS/Haiku userland on top, of the Linux Kernel. That would bring wide hardware support, including HW accelerated 3D (something BeOS was always lacking). It is not going to happen though, the attempts that were di
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by swerner 5y ago
Linux 20 years ago wasn’t what it is today. Low latency audio for example, that was something that BeOS in the late 90s could do out of the box, a similar experience on Linux required special kernel patches and some compromises or it simply
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by swerner 5y ago
Not just side projects. We did two feature animations using Blender, more projects in the pipeline: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iZn3kCsw5D8
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by swerner 7y ago
In my experience, OepnCL in Catalina is about as good or bad as it was in Mojave.

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