News A project to bring CUDA to non-Nvidia GPUs is making major progress — ZLUDA update now has two full-time developers, working on 32-bit PhysX suppor...

[Admin]

ZLUDA has expanded its team and made steady technical progress in Q1: Expands support for LLM.c, attempts to bring back PhysX 32-bit.

A project to bring CUDA to non-Nvidia GPUs is making major progress — ZLUDA update now has two full-time developers, working on 32-bit PhysX suppor... : Read more

 

[hotaru251]

ngl...i hope this goes well but I fully expect if it does NVIDIA will try their best to shut it down somehow.

 

[-Fran-]

ngl...i hope this goes well but I fully expect if it does NVIDIA will try their best to shut it down somehow.

They already have, kind of, forcing any "pro" user to abide by the TOS, so they can't use ZLUDA for anything and must use nVidia hardware. Because we somehow allow Companies to do that with the hardware we purchase from them.

Still, that wouldn't be a problem for the regular user at home with non-nVidia hardware.

Regards.

 

[Mr Majestyk]

They already have, kind of, forcing any "pro" user to abide by the TOS, so they can't use ZLUDA for anything and must use nVidia hardware. Because we somehow allow Companies to do that with the hardware we purchase from them.

Still, that wouldn't be a problem for the regular user at home with non-nVidia hardware.

Regards.

Why would the user of a Radeon card for example care one bit about Nvidia's TOS?

 

[-Fran-]

Why would the user of a Radeon card for example care one bit about Nvidia's TOS?

If they want to use CUDA libraries, they have to care. Specially if they want to re-distribute. It's not a hardware thing, but a software thing. Licencing is the biggest pain for software distribution and usage for Corps. As an end user, you may not care, because it's super hard to enforce, but if nVidia wanted to make your life miserable, they'd sue you, as a consumer, for breaching their TOS under some petty clause (which already exists). In short, you'd get DMCA'd.

Regards.