NVIDIA Announces MONAI Open-Source AI Project

[phoronix]

Phoronix: NVIDIA Announces MONAI Open-Source AI Project

NVIDIA has announced MONAI as their newest open-source initiative...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NVIDIA-MONAI-Open-Source

[tildearrow]

The good news: It's open-source
The bad news: Uses PyTorch (therefore CUDA) and requires an NVIDIA card.

NVIDIA - fooling the open-source community since 1993

[shmerl]

Sounds like ROCm backend for Pytorch is still not ready. So this is Nvidia only.

[Danny3]

Nvidia, disgusting as always.

[ix900]

Nvidia eats garbage lol

AMD sucks

Intel rocks but sucks too

[bridgman]

The good news: It's open-source
The bad news: Uses PyTorch (therefore CUDA) and requires an NVIDIA card.

AFAIK PyTorch has been running on ROCm/HIP for quite a while now.

[Prescience500]

I would be much more impressed if they opensourced their kernel driver for Linux graphics, much like AMD did with AMDGPU, and made it work with nouvou.

[AdamOne]

I already know what the nvidia announcement will be.

Nvidia: MORE Nvidia!! More us! You love us right?

[thelongdivider]

The good news: It's open-source
The bad news: Uses PyTorch (therefore CUDA) and requires an NVIDIA card.

NVIDIA - fooling the open-source community since 1993

Pytorch requires you to explicitly put your tensors on the GPU. The advantage to to such an action is that it speeds up training by ~50x in my experience (3900x vs. 2080). You can't hate on nvidia for developing a highly sophisticated API for parallel linear algebra. Do I wish it was open sourced? Yes. Would that reduce their profits? Absolutely.

[CochainComplex]

..well If I start to read Nvidia and OpenSource in an article it dissappoints me.
There are two schemes played by them:

1. Nvidia pretends it is foss but it is not if you look at the details.
2. the opensource community wants support but it is denied or crippled by Nvidia.