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by aetimmes
2657 days ago
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Modern HPC is being done with the Nvidia toolkits. Sure, the Nvidia driver is closed-source and a pain to work with for OS developers, but for the use-cases it's designed for (CUDA etc), it's far and away the best-in-class on Linux. To my knowledge, there are no systems in the TOP500 running AMD chips or GPUs. Intel has some competition in the CPU space (POWER series, some ARM, etc) but if GPUs are in those systems, they're Nvidia. |
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It's unfortunately a sad truth.
CUDA won, And is now the de-factor standard for almost every application that run over GPU. Nvidia succeeded to jailed the entire HPC community to their bloated, badly maintained crappy software stack and this is very regrettable.
Any admin / integrator that had to deal with NVidia bloatwares under Linux hate it, and for very good reasons.