How would this a good idea? I am not very familiar with GPU programming but the small amount I've tried was nothing but pain a few years ago on linux, it was so bad that Torvald publicly used the f word in a very public event. That aside, CUDA seem like a great way to lock people in even further like AWS does with absolutely everything
>CUDA seem like a great way to lock people in even further like AWS does with absolutely everything
Lock people in to something that didn’t exist in a way any user could use before it existed? I get people hate CUDAs dominance but no one else was pushing this before CUDA and Apple+AMD completely fumbled OpenCL.
Can’t hate on something good just because it’s successful and I can’t be angry the talent behind the success wanting to profit.
>I am not very familiar with GPU programming but the small amount I've tried was nothing but pain a few years ago on linux, it was so bad that Torvald publicly used the f word in a very public event.
I'm pretty sure Torvalds was giving the finger over the subject of GPU drivers (which run on the CPU), not programming on the Nvidia GPU itself. Particularly, they namedropped Bumblebee (and maybe Optimus?) which was more about power-management and making Nvidia cooperate with a non-Nvidia integrated GPU than it was about the Nvidia GPU itself.
