notbBut the argument was not about how it works. It was about VUDA replacing CUDA (making easy ports possible). That is not true. The code is different. End of story. :)

notbAs a client, you can't download Android and use it on your PC (well... you can, but it's pointless).

R0H1TYou remember Mantle, how cool that was? It's called Vulkan now & is in your PC, probably. If we didn't encourage free alternatives, we'd never have Linux or Android.

notbBut the argument was not about how it works. It was about VUDA replacing CUDA (making easy ports possible). That is not true. The code is different. End of story. :)

lexluthermiesterwww.android-x86.org/
www.phoenixos.com/download_x86
Solidly stable, supporting tons of hardware and very useful. You were saying?

FlankerSo basically using Vulkan's compute shader but wrap it up to make it look like CUDA?

FordGT90Conceptvuda class calls instead of cuda class calls, of course it is different in that regard, but performance matters. If, for example, VUDA performs only 10% slower than CUDA, VUDA code could be widely implemented in software with no specific CUDA path because it's not worth debugging. VUDA could get fairly wide spread use.

notbBut why? What makes VUDA so special that you couldn't do with OpenCL already?

And BTW: 10% performance gap is very optimistic. :-D