AMD Publishes Radeon Rays 4.1 As Open-Source

[phoronix]

Phoronix: AMD Publishes Radeon Rays 4.1 As Open-Source

Last year Radeon Rays 4.0 brought Vulkan support while dropping OpenCL and at the same time no longer being open-source... This GPU-accelerated ray intersection library used by the likes of Radeon ProRender is out today with version 4.1 and now it's back to being open-source...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Radeon-Rays-4.1-Open-Source

[tildearrow]

Great to see AMD is back in the open-source game...

[wizard69]

Great to see AMD is back in the open-source game...

They never really left. Just because a new release is not open source doesn't imply that AMD has given up on open source software. In the case of AMD they may of had to resolve a problem or two, to get approved for a complete release. Open source has been working really well for AMD and I suspect management knows it, I really don't see them abandoning anything here.

[zxy_thf]

Would be interesting to see blender picks this up.

[tildearrow]

They never really left. Just because a new release is not open source doesn't imply that AMD has given up on open source software. In the case of AMD they may of had to resolve a problem or two, to get approved for a complete release. Open source has been working really well for AMD and I suspect management knows it, I really don't see them abandoning anything here.

What I meant is, the project was called GPUOpen, and Radeon Rays 4.0 was the opposite of the project's name...

[kpedersen]

What I meant is, the project was called GPUOpen, and Radeon Rays 4.0 was the opposite of the project's name...

Think of GPUOpen as you would OpenGroup or OpenVMS.

... as in not really open. Quite closed in fact.

(Glad they resolved it though!)

[coder]

Think of GPUOpen as you would OpenGroup or OpenVMS.

... as in not really open. Quite closed in fact.

Please explain.

[tildearrow]

Please explain.

Open standards, closed implementations.

However GPUOpen is not a standards group...

[kpedersen]

However GPUOpen is not a standards group...

Neither is OpenVMS to be fair. A number of software from the Open Group has remained proprietary too. CDE and Motif was some good examples for most of their lifespan.

Though I did away from mentioning OpenGL on purpose because it isn't really a library but a spec. Many implementations are proprietary as you probably know.

[cb88]

Neither is OpenVMS to be fair. A number of software from the Open Group has remained proprietary too. CDE and Motif was some good examples for most of their lifespan.

Though I did away from mentioning OpenGL on purpose because it isn't really a library but a spec. Many implementations are proprietary as you probably know.

Technically Motif was an open spec with proprietary implementation also.... Motif is[or was] even an IEEE standard....