Why not develop a Go <> CUDA binding using CGo? > On Jun 25, 2021, at 12:11 PM, Marcin Romaszewicz <marc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Graphics chips have a lot of proprietary IP, some of which the manufacturers > would like to keep secret. If you see source for one of these drivers, you > will have a good idea about the hardware organization, so they keep > everything secret. It stinks for us developers who want to write cross > platform open source. The best bet right now, in my opinion, is to write CGO > wrappers around platform native libraries, and sadly, they'll only work on > some OS/hardware combinations. > > >> On Fri, Jun 25, 2021 at 8:53 AM Nikolay Dubina >> <nikolay.dubina....@gmail.com> wrote: >> I tried to write down my own CUDA / NVIDIA GPU driver in native Go last >> weekend. To my great surprise, CUDA and pretty much all high performance >> software/hardware from NVIDIA is proprietary close-source C/C++ code. >> Meaning, you can't write native Go driver even if you wanted to. Forget Go, >> people are trying to reverse engineer it in C/C++ with limited success. From >> what I heard OpenCV is not a priority for NVIDIA either. Then I looked up >> what Apple is doing with their Neural Engine in latest chips. It too is >> closed-source Objective-C, Swift. I suspect situation with other powerful >> hardware is the same. Moore's law seem to be about GPU lately, and everyone >> is locking it in. Kind of not in the spirit open-source and Linux. That's >> quite bad state of affairs for Go and computing in general. Yikes! >> >> Just want to see what others are thinking. >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "golang-nuts" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/0913f098-700a-443f-bd02-2db7ad2408a6n%40googlegroups.com. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "golang-nuts" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/CA%2Bv29LvH8eZqX8ASryOgBexMVUUyDO%2BTQFtaxz8Y-EDi92hkEA%40mail.gmail.com.
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