Re: is Vax addressing sane today

On Fri, 11 Oct 2024 01:41:58 -0000 (UTC)
Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

On Mon, 7 Oct 2024 13:05:53 +0300, Michael S wrote:
 

In all cases the vendor of GPU changed ... 

 
That, too, added to the problem, in that the software folks had to
rewrite all the performance-intensive bits yet again for the new
machine.
 
OpenCL never took off because the GPGPU market simply isn’t
competitive enough. NVidia is dominant, AMD plays second fiddle, and
that’s it.

I am not sure about dog-tail relationships.
To me it sound plausible that NV dominates due to better software story.

At least that's what I see in certain sectors of embedded market -
people prefer old NV Jetson Xavier over newer AMD and Intel SoCs that
are much better not only on the CPU side, but also provide much more
FLOPs on GPU side. And the reason is that they are much more certain
that they will be able to write programs for NV GPUs than they are for
AMD or Intel GPUs.