ZLUDA, The Open-Source Library For Running NVIDIA CUDA On AMD GPUs, Has Now Been Taken Down Amid Legal Concerns
ZLUDA, the popular open-source library for porting NVIDIA's CUDA code onto AMD's ROCm stack, has now been taken down, as it didn't comply with legal terms.
ZLUDA Sees a Disappointing Ending As AMD Demanded Developers To Take It Down, Saying Its Illegal
ZLUDA made some serious headlines a few months ago. It made the practice of "code-porting" a whole lot easier, especially between NVIDIA CUDA and AMD's ROCm environments.
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Originally, ZLUDA was designed to support Intel GPUs on NVIDIA's software stack, but eventually, AMD took care of the project and, together with multiple developers, molded it in a way that allowed them to break boundaries and access NVIDIA's CUDA onto their own AI hardware. However, this massive achievement hasn't lasted long since ZLUDA has now been taken down amid legal concerns.
After AMD abandoned the project, the asset's developers decided to make it open-source for the betterment of the community, but the code has been retracted from its GitHub repository, as the developer Andrzej Janik claims that they have received concerns from AMD surrounding the project's existence in legal terms. Here is what the developer had to say:
With the open-source code not being available to the public now, it's really sad to see ZLUDA go away, given that it did break the barriers present in modern-day AI markets, allowing multiple architectures to interact with each other. Janik says that he does plan to rebuild ZLUDA, hence we can see a rebranded version surface over the internet, but that isn't certain for now.
News Source: Phoronix
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