Gerald that is an excellent history. One small thing though: "Of course the ML came along" What came first - the chicken or the egg? Perhaps the Nvidia ecosystem made the ML revolution possible. You could run ML models on a cheap workstation or a laptop with an Nvidia GPU. Indeed I am sitting next to my Nvidia Jetson Nano - 90 dollars for a GPU which can do deep learning. Prior to CUDA etc. you could of course do machine learning, but it was being done in universities. I stand to be corrected.
On Thu, 9 May 2019 at 17:40, Gerald Henriksen <ghenr...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, 8 May 2019 14:13:51 -0400, you wrote: > > >On Wed, May 8, 2019 at 1:47 PM Jörg Saßmannshausen < > >sassy-w...@sassy.formativ.net> wrote: > >> > >Once upon a time portability, interoperabiilty, standardization, were > >considered good software and hardware attributes. > >Whatever happened to them? > > I suspect in a lot of cases they were more ideals and goals than > actual things. > > Just look at the struggles the various BSDs have in getting a lot of > software running given the inherent Linuxisms that seem to happen. > > In the case of what is relevant to this discussion, CUDA, Nvidia saw > an opportunity (and perhaps also reacted to the threat of not having > their own CPU to counter the integrated GPU market) and invested > heavily into making their GPUs more than simply a 3D graphics device. > > As Nvidia built up the libraries and other software to make life > easier for programmers to get the most out of Nvidia hardware AMD and > Intel ignored the threat until it was too late, and partial attempts > at open standards struggled. > > And programmers, given struggling with OpenCL or other options vs > going with CUDA with its tools and libraries, went for what gave them > the best performance and easiest implementation (aka a win/win). > > Of course then ML came along and suddenly AMD and Intel couldn't > ignore the market anymore, but they are both struggling from a distant > 2nd place to try and replicate the CUDA ecosystem... > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > https://beowulf.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/beowulf >
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