ZLUDA - ZLUDA's third life
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  • onlinepersona@programming.dev
    3·
    3 months ago

    I don’t understand the history here. I thought AMD said “don’t do it”. Now there’s funding from a third party to " just do it"?

    There were murmurs that NVIDIA had told AMD to stop funding the project, probably under threat of a lawsuit. Is this project not in a similar position again?

    Anti Commercial-AI license

    • leopold@lemmy.kde.social
      9·
      3 months ago

      History:

      1. ZLUDA starts as a project to make CUDA work on Intel GPUs, with funding from Intel.
      2. Intel pulls funding, author manages to get funding from AMD instead.
      3. Development of a new version targetting AMD GPUs happens under closed doors with the informal agreement that the source code will be publicly released if AMD pulls funding.
      4. After a couple of years, AMD pulls funding and the source code for the new version is released.
      5. Development continues in the open for a few months, albeit at a slowed pace.
      6. AMD goes back on their word, claims previous agreement wasn’t legally binding and asks that ZLUDA source code be taken down.
      7. Author reverts codebase to its pre-AMD state, looks for new source of funding.
      8. ZLUDA’s Third Life
      9. Anything regarding NVIDIA involvement is pure speculation and should be treated as such.