Vulkan-CPU Is Now Known As Kazan

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Vulkan-CPU Is Now Known As Kazan

The Vulkan-CPU project that was born this summer via Google Summer of Code for running Vulkan on the CPU as a software renderer has been named to Kazan...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Vulkan-CPU-Kazan

[Adarion]

Kazan (Kasan) is also a large town in Russia where you have a good and commendable co-existence of religions (as far as I head from people there).
The project might be interesting as a fallback solution, otoh. it will probably be kinda slow.

[Oguz286]

Another fun fact: "kazan" means "win" in Turkish, so it's already a winner in my book

Edit: onokun : Yep, it's also a big metal bowl in Turkish as well.

[onokun]

Lets continue - Kazan is a big metal bowl where Uzbek people cooking their national dish - Plov

[schmidtbag]

A cazan is also known as a boiler kettle.
It also means "they hunt" or "they catch" in Spanish.

EDIT:
This just in - Kazan also means "let's stay on topic".

[devius]

Another fun fact: Kazan is a word that doesn't exist in Portuguese.

[Danny3]

Cazan in romanian means cauldron, metal container used for heating or boiling water, or other kind of liquid.

[lowflyer]

Well, it's also the name of an actress.