I don’t know how to retire a car but my dad has guided me through replacing a few bits of the engine mount, so does that count?

Now, I don’t write code. So I can’t really tell you if this is the truth or not — but:

I’ve heard from software developers on the internet that OpenCL is much more difficult and less accessible to write than CUDA code. CUDA is easier to write, and thus gets picked up and used by more developers.

In addition to that, someone in this thread mentions CUDA “sometimes” having better performance, but I don’t think it’s only sometimes. I think that due to the existence of the tensor cores (which are really good at neural nets and matrix multiplication), CUDA has vastly better performance when taking advantage of those hardware features.

Tensor cores are not Nvidia specific, but they are the “most ahead”. They have the most in their GPU’s, and probably most importantly: CUDA only supports Nvidia, and therefore by extension, their tensor cores.

There are alternative projects, like how leela chess zero mentions tensorflow for google’s Tensor Processing Units, but those aren’t anywhere near as popular due to performance and software support.

AFIK it’s only NVIDIA that allows containers shared access to a GPU on the host.

This cannot be right. I’m pretty sure that it is possible to run OpenCL applications in containers that are sharing a GPU.

I should test this if I have time. My plan was to use a distrobox container since that shares the GPU by default and run something like lc0 to see if opencl acceleration works.

Now where is my remindme bot? (I won’t have time).

18 points.

I’ve owned a dictionary and an encyclopedia.

It’s worked fine for me with no configuration. If you ask for help, we can troubleshoot and get it working.

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I despise the way Canonical pretends discourse forum posts by their team members* are documentation.

I’ve noticed they have been a bit better lately, and have migrated much of the posts to their documentation, but it seems they are doing it again.

As this is developed, we will update this post to link to the new documentation and feature release notes.

Pro tip: You could have just made the documentation directly, with the content of this post. Or maybe a blog post. But please stop with the forum posts. They are very confusing for people not used to these… unique locations.

*Not that people are easily able to find this out when they don’t give any indication that the forum post is something other than just another post by a rando. Actually, I’m just guessing here, based on the quoted reply, for all I know this could be a post by someone unrelated to Canonical. The account is 3 months, and the post itself is identical to a regular forum post from a regular forum member…