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by blt 3726 days ago
I'm at GPU Technology Conference, where this computer was announced this morning. The amount of "wood behind the arrow" NVidia has for AI is insane. Even though the current demographic of GPU development is full of HPC simulations, physics, graphics... it's obvious that their biggest thrust is in machine learning. I don't think OpenCL can compete with this amount of money and enthusiasm. NVidia is rich and their engineers are very good. Some big changes would need to happen before OpenCL catches up to CUDA.
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I think it's just really bad management from AMD. Took them ages to wake up, and now they have what looks like a relatively small team on their Boltzmann initiative. Remains to be seen what happens to it.

How much do you think it would really cost to develop an OpenCL equivalent of CuDNN (even a stripped down version, just fast)? I know AMD are struggling but we are talking about allocating a handful of talented engineers