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It is up to AMD, Intel and Khronos to offer APIs and tools that are actually nice to use. They have had about 15 years to move beyond C99, stone age workflows to compile GLSL and C99 with their drivers, no libraries ecosystem, and printf debugging. Eventually some of the issues have been fixed, after they started seeing only hardliners would put with such development experience, and then it was too late.
Isn't there OneAPI with its huge ecosystem of tools, debuggers, etc?
Yes, that is part of "it was too late".
OneAPI builds on top of SYSCL, is basically Intel's CUDA, which it is already the second attempt to have C++ in OpenCL, during OpenCL 2.x, an effort that worked so well, that OpenCL 3.0 is basically a reboot back to OpenCL 1.0.
Also even SYSCL only got a proper kick-off after CodePlay came up with its implementation, nowadays they sell oneAPI support and tooling, after being acquired by Intel.
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#93The compiler for CUDA Tile being Blackwell only is a baffling decision. I wanted to try it out, but it's only really easy to grab H100s quickly right now. I guess maybe I'll try it out on my 5070 Ti after traveling, but am more likely to stick to an IR that targets multiple platforms, since they couldn't be bothered.
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Easy, if that’s how you feel, skip the comment and don’t engage. Telling people who want to have that participation and discussion to “RTFM” is not a good response. Often you’ll come across the authors on these posts that can shed direct, 1st person evidence, of what we’re talking about. So please, when someone asks “what is that?” Don’t respond with “RTFM”.
Asking "what is this?" is fine. Treating "I was unfamiliar with this" as evidence that the post is deficient is not. HN already assumes a baseline of technical literacy. When something falls outside that baseline, the usual move is to ask for context or links, not to reframe personal unfamiliarity as an author failure. So please, don’t normalize treating "I don’t know this yet" as a failure of the post.
But not defining acronyms on first use is a failure of etiquette. Its your prerogative to not hold this to be true, but many of us do. There is little value in eliding the on-first-use definition.
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#95The compiler for CUDA Tile being Blackwell only is a baffling decision. I wanted to try it out, but it's only really easy to grab H100s quickly right now. I guess maybe I'll try it out on my 5070 Ti after traveling, but am more likely to stick to an IR that targets multiple platforms, since they couldn't be bothered.
I was keen to try it too, but oh well
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That's the whole problem. I had to "R" multiple "FMs" before one of them bothered to define the acronym. Stop carrying water for poor documentation practice.
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You're posting a spirited defense of substandard technical writing. Just curious -- why is that?
Because I think the norm we reinforce here actually matters. When confusion gets framed as "this is substandard writing", it rewards showing up and performing a lack of context rather than engaging with the substance or asking clarifying questions. Over time that creates pressure to write to the lowest common denominator, instead of the audience the author is clearly aiming at. HN already operates on an implicit base…
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Hundreds of thousands of developers with access to a global communication network were not stopped by AMD. Why act like dependents or wait for some bright star of consensus unless the intent is really about getting the work for free? We don't have to wait for singular companies or foundations to fix ecosystem problems. Only the means of coordination are needed. https://prizeforge.com isn't there yet, but it is alread…
> We don't have to wait for singular companies or foundations to fix ecosystem problems. Geohot has been working on this for about a year, and every roadblock he's encountered he has had to damn near pester Lisa Su about getting drivers fixed. If you want the CUDA replacement that would work on AMD, you need to wait on AMD. If there is a bug in the AMD microcode, you are effectively "stopped by AMD".
We have to platform and organize people, not rely on lone individuals. If there is a deep well of aligned interest, that interest needs a way to represent itself so that AMD has something to talk to, on a similar footing as a B2B relationship. When you work with other companies with hundreds and thousands of employees, it's natural that emails from individuals get drowned out or misunderstood as circulated around.
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#100This is basically the nvidia equivalent of cooperative_matrix_2 in Vulkan which is vendor agnostic and should get much more hype that it's getting.