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ZLUDA v4 Released For Initial CUDA Support On Non-NVIDIA GPUs


One of the unexpected twists this year was after several years of AMD quietly funding the ZLUDA developer for enabling unmodified CUDA applications to run on AMD GPUs at near-native performance, the ZLUDA atop AMD HIP code was made available and open-source following the end of the AMD contract

Back in October ZLUDA then decided to pursue a new life as an open-source multi-GPU CUDA implementation with an emphasis on AI workloads. Following AMD requesting the removal of the ZLUDA source code they funded, ZLUDA developer Andrzej Janik has been working on a new rewrite that also wouldn't be limited to just AMD GPUs but could be used across vendors for CUDA on non-NVIDIA GPUs more broadly. But before getting too excited, ZLUDA v4 support is quite limited and the only known intended program to be currently working is Geekbench with its CUDA benchmarks.

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