AMD Doing everything they can to make sure Intel and nVidia stay on top.
AMD lawyers claw back CUDA compatibility layer ZLUDA
Submitted 3 months ago by Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/09/amd_zluda_take_down/
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ms_lane@lemmy.world 3 months ago
boreengreen@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Well, it does say that Nvidia does not allow a translation layer like this.
tabular@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Nvidia may be using an EULA to try and make people not use a translation layer, but if the EULA doesn’t apply or the consequences of breaking it don’t prevent you continuing then what Nvidia wants means diddly.
I don’t use CUDA or Nvidia so I don’t know but Google release Android Studio and have an EULA saying you can’t do bla bla bla. But Android Studio is open source so if I don’t use their binary and compile it myself then (as far as I know) their EULA doesn’t apply (only the open source license used before they added an EULA on top of it on distribution).
datelmd5sum@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Intel are on top?
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
No, but that’s not AMD’s fault.
zik@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Not in reliability…
But they’re probably still selling more CPUs to your average buyer who never even heard about the controversy.
Static_Rocket@lemmy.world 2 months ago
This is a short term loss for a potential long term improvement. By eliminating dependency on translation APIs they can force the use of more open solutions like oneAPI which is even getting buy-in from companies like Imagination.
Keeping cuda alive is a bad idea.
verdantbanana@lemmy.world 3 months ago
old news but there is new news on this topic
seaQueue@lemmy.world 3 months ago
If anyone’s holding a copy of this repo as of its last published state before the rollback hit me up, I’d love to have a copy of it stashed away to play with.
verdantbanana@lemmy.world 3 months ago
github.com/vosen/ZLUDA/releases/tag/v3