An open standard challenger appears
The UXL Foundation is readying its open standard accelerator programming model, touted by some as an alternative to Nvidia's CUDA platform, for"a spec release in Q4."is a group of companies operating under the aegis of the Linux Foundation to develop an open standard accelerator programming model for application realms, including, of course AI.:"In fact, the specification has been under development for a few years and has been released regularly over that time.
Beyond this, implementations of the spec have been under development for the past few years and are now being used by some developers to write code and target multiple vendors, Burns explained. The project has backing from a number of heavy-hitters, with steering members of the UXL Foundation including Arm, Intel, Google Cloud, Qualcomm, Fujitsu, and VMware.Nvidia: Why write code when you can string together a couple chat bots?Nvidia talks up local AI with RTX 500, 1000 Ada mobile GPUs
"The increasing demand for data-intensive workloads has led to proliferation in the use of GPUs, and most recently the emergence of LLM-based AI applications has created an explosion in GPU usage," Burns wrote at the time of UXL's announcement in September.
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