I’ve read multiple times that CUDA dominates, mostly because NVIDIA dominates. Rocm is the AMD equivalent, but OpenCL also exists. From my understanding, these are technologies used to program graphics cards - always thought that shaders were used for that.
There is a huge gap in my knowledge and understanding about this, so I’d appreciate somebody laying this out for me. I could ask an LLM and be misguided, but I’d rather not 🤣
You really piqued my interest. I use docker/podman.
W/ an AMD graphics card, eglinfo on the host shows the card is AMD Radeon and driver is matching that.
In the container, without --gpus=all, it shows the card is unknown and the driver is “swrast” (so just CPU fallback).
To make --gpus=all work, it gives the error
I was doing a bad job searching before. I found that AMD can share the GPU, it just works a little differently in terms of how to launch the container. https://rocm.docs.amd.com/projects/install-on-linux/en/latest/install/amdgpu-install.html#amdgpu-install-dkms
But sadly my AMD GPU is too old/junk to have current driver support.
Anyways, appreciate the reply! Now I can mod my code to run on cheaper cloud instances.
(Note I’m an OpenGL/3D app developer, but probably OpenCL works about the same architecturally)