Sadly, that's a very problematic, borderline BS definition.
"A system that allows third parties to make products that plug into or interoperate with it. For example, the PC is an open system."
Intel allows some third parties to interoperate with their system (ref Intel vs NVIDIA etc.) and they pick and choose to their liking, kill some and promote others exactly because they control the open-ness of their systems.
> nor did I refer to CUDA as a programming language.
You did refer to "CUDA compiler". My comment was admittedly a nitpick as well as a serious point too. CUDA can be seen as a C++ language + extensions -- something you can compile --, but it's also more than that (stuff that you can't compile), e.g.: API, programming tools, etc. all strongly adapted for NVIDIA hardware.
Sadly, that's a very problematic, borderline BS definition.
"A system that allows third parties to make products that plug into or interoperate with it. For example, the PC is an open system."
Intel allows some third parties to interoperate with their system (ref Intel vs NVIDIA etc.) and they pick and choose to their liking, kill some and promote others exactly because they control the open-ness of their systems.
> http://www.anandtech.com/show/9792/amd-sc15-boltzmann-initia...
HIP is still not a CUDA compiler. http://gpuopen.com/compute-product/hip-convert-cuda-to-porta...
> nor did I refer to CUDA as a programming language.
You did refer to "CUDA compiler". My comment was admittedly a nitpick as well as a serious point too. CUDA can be seen as a C++ language + extensions -- something you can compile --, but it's also more than that (stuff that you can't compile), e.g.: API, programming tools, etc. all strongly adapted for NVIDIA hardware.