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

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sam_goody ◴[12 Feb 24 14:50 UTC] No.39345359[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

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1. michaellarabel ◴[12 Feb 24 15:04 UTC] No.39345527[source]▶
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.