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ZLUDA's third life (vosen.github.io)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20535629

ZLUDA is a compatibility layer for Nividia’s CUDA on other processors

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

History:

  1. ZLUDA starts as a project to make CUDA work on Intel GPUs, with funding from Intel.
  2. Intel pulls funding, author manages to get funding from AMD instead.
  3. Development of a new version targetting AMD GPUs happens under closed doors with the informal agreement that the source code will be publicly released if AMD pulls funding.
  4. After a couple of years, AMD pulls funding and the source code for the new version is released.
  5. Development continues in the open for a few months, albeit at a slowed pace.
  6. AMD goes back on their word, claims previous agreement wasn't legally binding and asks that ZLUDA source code be taken down.
  7. Author reverts codebase to its pre-AMD state, looks for new source of funding.
  8. ZLUDA's Third Life
  9. Anything regarding NVIDIA involvement is pure speculation and should be treated as such.
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Oh great, thanks for the run down! That clears things up 👍

It would be great I'd this got to a point where one could "just" buy any GPU without worrying about CUDA. Really amazing project.

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