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ZLUDA's third life (vosen.github.io)

submitted 1 month ago by Blaze to c/[email protected]

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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] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Who do we think is ZLUDA's new backer? 10 bucks says it's Valve. Tbh I don't really believe that myself since Valve has been pretty transparent in its funding, but who else stands to gain as much?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What exactly does Valve stand to gain at all from funding a CUDA compatibility layer targetting mainly machine learning software? They're a video game company. Arguably the most gaming-centric thing CUDA is used for was explicitly discarded in the blog post ("Raytracing is gone").

Machine learning is massive now and there are many companies who could be interested in funding this kind of project. I'm pretty skeptical it's possible to make any good guesses with what little info we have.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I was thinking physics processing. Cloth/soft body sim, smoke/dust and other particle physics, potentially water physics, and so on.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

No, I bet it is some AI firm. nVidia is currently milking most of them dry and I would not be surprised if it is either Microsoft or Meta