AMD Radeon Pro SSG, launched ten years ago at SIGGRAPH: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-radeon-ssg-1tb-gpu-mem...
It may look like that from the inside. From the outside, as a user, it looks like Meta only wants to connect customers with advertisers.
I’ve worked gate for years, so I’ve seen plenty of RVs and camper trailers from the inside, and you do get an impression of the people that travel in them. Everyone’s there - be it tie die and patchouli hippies, be it…
It’s what seven days of sleep deprivation, dehydration and probably substance abuse do to you.
The kinds of drugs people at burning man prefer to take are not very likely to lead to death from overdose.
Really? My takeaway is “there’s a reason we keep motor vehicles out of pedestrian zones”. A surprisingly high number of vehicle related incidents for a 5mph zone.
This was just one web search away: https://www.aol.com/articles/burning-man-deaths-look-every-1...
Given that firearms are prohibited and motor vehicle traffic is limited to 5mph, that alone would take out two unnatural causes of death. Also, drowning is a lot less likely to occur in the desert.
Proximity to borders leaves the government the possibility that if it really, really wanted to search a property, they'd just have to cede some land in a 100mile radius to a foreign country and instantly create an…
If your stack is open source, why not? I’ve had good results with pointing an LLM to a debug build of the GPU compiler when I saw it crash. It just seems you need to periodically remind them that gdb exists to prevent…
Wait, I have an idea: What is your qualification for talking about graphics programming? If you cannot provide credentials, I will have no other choice than to claim you don’t know what you’re talking about, based on…
Not everything is AI and dot products of massive vectors, there are still applications that do other maths on GPUs My thinking was rather that most of our current programming languages put memory layout fully into the…
Vulkan compute is not really designed or intended to be a CUDA competitor, its feature set is much more restricted, and Vulkan host side code is much more verbose than CUDA. OpenCL or SYCL are much closer in features to…
For a performant portable language, we’d have to go to a higher level where you describe what to do and leave the how to do to the compiler. It would then need to be able to adjust memory layout, access patterns, data…
Yes, unfortunately. Otherwise we could just implement all of SYCL and OpenCL on top of Vulkan and live happily ever after.
TIL, I didn’t know that. I always assumed it came from level zero”, the Intel computer layer that ZLUDA was translating to before its developer was hired by AMD to target HIP.
What domain do you think I was talking about?
Oh, absolutely. Nvidia is the modern day “nobody gets fired for buying IBM”. The reason we’re still using Unix is not because it’s the best, but because it had to much inertia to let any alternative become its…
Unfortunately, many of very good ideas end with “it’s open source, anyone can contribute” because very few actually do.
Most modern graphics is compute. Pixar, Dreamworks, Sony, etc do not use Vulkan to render their movies. It’s CPUs or CUDA.
Outsider to what?
If it helps you at all: “if you've never debugged a GPU synchronization error or kernel panic due to some GPU firmware bug or fought absolute shit profilers hunting for perf” I have done all of those things. As part of…
I don't think we're at a point yet where anyone would trust ZLUDA enough to ship commercial products that rely on it. I would be delighted though, if anyone can prove me wrong.
I could post the GitHub URLs of all the shader code I wrote that’s running on countless GPUs right now, but what would it change? I’m still just a random guy on the internet with an opinion that happens to be different…
To my knowledge, SPIR-V on Intel will stay, and be it only because it’s part of the OpenCL and Vulkan standards.
AMD Radeon Pro SSG, launched ten years ago at SIGGRAPH: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-radeon-ssg-1tb-gpu-mem...
It may look like that from the inside. From the outside, as a user, it looks like Meta only wants to connect customers with advertisers.
I’ve worked gate for years, so I’ve seen plenty of RVs and camper trailers from the inside, and you do get an impression of the people that travel in them. Everyone’s there - be it tie die and patchouli hippies, be it…
It’s what seven days of sleep deprivation, dehydration and probably substance abuse do to you.
The kinds of drugs people at burning man prefer to take are not very likely to lead to death from overdose.
Really? My takeaway is “there’s a reason we keep motor vehicles out of pedestrian zones”. A surprisingly high number of vehicle related incidents for a 5mph zone.
This was just one web search away: https://www.aol.com/articles/burning-man-deaths-look-every-1...
Given that firearms are prohibited and motor vehicle traffic is limited to 5mph, that alone would take out two unnatural causes of death. Also, drowning is a lot less likely to occur in the desert.
Proximity to borders leaves the government the possibility that if it really, really wanted to search a property, they'd just have to cede some land in a 100mile radius to a foreign country and instantly create an…
If your stack is open source, why not? I’ve had good results with pointing an LLM to a debug build of the GPU compiler when I saw it crash. It just seems you need to periodically remind them that gdb exists to prevent…
Wait, I have an idea: What is your qualification for talking about graphics programming? If you cannot provide credentials, I will have no other choice than to claim you don’t know what you’re talking about, based on…
Not everything is AI and dot products of massive vectors, there are still applications that do other maths on GPUs My thinking was rather that most of our current programming languages put memory layout fully into the…
Vulkan compute is not really designed or intended to be a CUDA competitor, its feature set is much more restricted, and Vulkan host side code is much more verbose than CUDA. OpenCL or SYCL are much closer in features to…
For a performant portable language, we’d have to go to a higher level where you describe what to do and leave the how to do to the compiler. It would then need to be able to adjust memory layout, access patterns, data…
Yes, unfortunately. Otherwise we could just implement all of SYCL and OpenCL on top of Vulkan and live happily ever after.
TIL, I didn’t know that. I always assumed it came from level zero”, the Intel computer layer that ZLUDA was translating to before its developer was hired by AMD to target HIP.
What domain do you think I was talking about?
Oh, absolutely. Nvidia is the modern day “nobody gets fired for buying IBM”. The reason we’re still using Unix is not because it’s the best, but because it had to much inertia to let any alternative become its…
Unfortunately, many of very good ideas end with “it’s open source, anyone can contribute” because very few actually do.
Most modern graphics is compute. Pixar, Dreamworks, Sony, etc do not use Vulkan to render their movies. It’s CPUs or CUDA.
Outsider to what?
If it helps you at all: “if you've never debugged a GPU synchronization error or kernel panic due to some GPU firmware bug or fought absolute shit profilers hunting for perf” I have done all of those things. As part of…
I don't think we're at a point yet where anyone would trust ZLUDA enough to ship commercial products that rely on it. I would be delighted though, if anyone can prove me wrong.
I could post the GitHub URLs of all the shader code I wrote that’s running on countless GPUs right now, but what would it change? I’m still just a random guy on the internet with an opinion that happens to be different…
To my knowledge, SPIR-V on Intel will stay, and be it only because it’s part of the OpenCL and Vulkan standards.