AMD opens wallet to lure scientific computing boffins away from Nvidia's CUDA onto its Instinct accelerators

AMD has rolled out a programme that it hopes will tempt scientific computing types away from Nvidia and the CUDA ecosystem and onto its own Instinct accelerator range and ROCm run-anywhere software platform: the AMD Instinct Education and Research (AIER) initiative. "At AMD, we're committed to engineering the best products and …

[Pascal Monett]

Competition

There's nothing like it.

[Paul Hovnanian]

Interesting

How many BTC will one of those set me back?

[teknopaul]

Re: Interesting

I would say approximately 34

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35

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36

[Anonymous Coward]

They good at fp64 but tbh the radeonpro VII makes more sense on a price:performance basis.

[Korev]

Does (will) AMD play the same datacentre software licence shenanigans that Nvidia do?

[Aitor 1]

Yes, that is critical.. and I suspect they will do the same in due time.. I also want to know.