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I get that, but I also look at testing as what I think it could tell me. If a faster CPU is architecturally similar and just faster than the one I've...

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Some of the more recent issues involving ROCm are related to compatibility with the opensource graphics stack. Fortunately for Xylinx, they only have...

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So, Rocket Lake's AVX-512 could be interesting, except Lavapipe doesn't support beyond AVX2, IIRC.

Otherwise, I'm not sure it'd be a very...

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They have ROCm support for Xylinx FPGAs. Say what you will about ROCm, but it's not nothing!


AVX extensions are not an AI strategy!...

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I'm honestly surprised these sorts of improvements haven't been pursued years ago. I could imagine the scheduling code is pretty hairy, by this point....

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If AMD really intended Mantle to be a viable alternative API, please explain why they only ever offered it for GCN cards, even while they still had some...

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If you haven't noticed, he's a total Nvidia/ARM shill. Probably has a big pile of NVDA shares....

[coder]

Huh? And huh?


BS. Plenty of people are using OpenCL, in spite of many Vendors and Platform companies rejecting it!

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[coder]

You're answering the wrong question. I think we all get why it's nice to have it accessible to non-priveleged users, but the key question is how it's...

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Nowhere is perfect. It has plenty of good points, though. It's probably the only place I'd want to live other than New Zealand, Canada, or certain countries...

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I keep seeing comments like these and have to ask: did you guys read the full quote, before weighing in on it?

The employee quoted the manager...

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Yes. It said they were "an IBM employee" (i.e. not a contractor), so that means a salary. There's basically a 0.0% chance that an IBM employee...

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Why are you trying so hard to side with Google on this?


No, there was even an embedded profile.


Qualcomm and a...

[coder]

A 64-core CPU with AVX-512? Doesn't exist!


Intel's latest Ice Lake CPUs feature up to 40 cores and 2x AVX-512 FMA per core. So,...

[coder]

WTF? Must be a state thing.

AFAIK, the only time a salaried employee has a wage claim, under labor laws, is when they work so many hours...

[coder]

It's what they opted for, instead of embracing OpenCL.
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[coder]

As a salaried employee, it wouldn't have been about overtime.

I think it was most likely about split loyalties between what's best for IBM...

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I wouldn't believe it if I didn't see it, but a former co-worker of mine got into a big tiff with HR over his custom-printed name tag. It was so subtly...

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This is a strawman. Who contributed what and why was never the issue. The issue was infringing IP in the kernel.


That's a faulty...

[coder]

Do you think IBM adopted Linux and other open source projects out of altruism, or for fundamentally pragmatic reasons?

And if they are contributing...