Added to that, OpenCL was light years behind CUDA (at least that was the case two years ago, when I looked at it last). I can understand nVidia making sure their product is OpenCL compatible, but putting their R&D into CUDA. To be quite honest, it is damn hard to get cutting edge R&D into APIs designed by a committee, and that probably the way it should be.
More reprehensible is their attitude towards the Open Source Nouveau driver, although that may have improved since Linus spat the dummy at them. On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 05:45:46PM -0500, mar...@snoutfarm.com wrote: > I wrote: > > "For example, for a while AMD used OpenCL to discriminate > themselves from nVidia (the little guy in *that* example)." > > To clarify, > > nVidia likes OpenGL -> Microsoft is competitor with DirectX. Competitors > are bad. > AMD likes OpenCL -> nVidia competitor with CUDA. Competitors are bad. > nVidia doesn't invest OpenCL -> No serious competitor to CUDA > > [etc] > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > mail2web.com - Microsoft® Exchange solutions from a leading provider - > http://link.mail2web.com/Business/Exchange > > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics hpco...@hpcoders.com.au University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
