AMD funded a drop-in CUDA implementation built on ROCm: It's now open-source

Aside from the latest commit, there has been no activity for almost 3 years (latest code change on Feb 22, 2021).

People are criticizing AMD for dropping this, but it makes sense to stop paying for development when the dev has stopped doing the work, no?

And if he means that AMD stopped paying 3 years ago - well, that was before dinosaurs and ChatGPT, and alot has changed since then.

https://github.com/vosen/ZLUDA/commits/v3

Pretty sure this was developed in private, but because AMD cancelled the contract he has been allowed to open source the code, and this is the "throw it over the fence" code dump.

My thinking is that the dev _did_ work on it for X amount of time, but as part of their contract is not allowed to share the _actual_ history of the repo, thus the massive code dumped in their "Nobody expects the Red Team" commit?

Have a look at the latest commit and the level of change.

Effectively the internal commits while he was working for AMD aren't in the repo, but the squashed commit contains all of the changes.

This.

    762 changed files with 252,017 additions and 39,027 deletions.

https://github.com/vosen/ZLUDA/commit/1b9ba2b2333746c5e2b05a...

As I wrote in the article, it was privately developed the past 2+ years while being contracted by AMD during that time... In a private GitHub repo. Now that he's able to make it public / open-source, he squashed all the changes into a clean new commit to make it public. The ZLUDA code from 3+ years ago was when he was experimenting with CUDA on Intel GPUs.

The code prior to this was all for the intel gpu zluda, and then the latest commit is all the amd zluda code, hence why the commit talks about the red team

If only this exact concern was addressed explicitly in the first FAQ at the bottom of the README...

https://github.com/vosen/ZLUDA/tree/v3?tab=readme-ov-file#fa...

This is really interesting (from the project's README):

> AMD decided that there is no business case for running CUDA applications on AMD GPUs.

Is AMD leadership brain-damaged, or something?