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NVIDIA Bringing CUDA To RISC-V

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NVIDIA announced this week that they are bringing their CUDA software to RISC-V processors.

NVIDIA's drivers and CUDA software stack are predominantly supported on x86_64 and AArch64 systems but in the past was supported on IBM POWER. This week at the RISC-V Summit China event, NVIDIA's Frans Sijstermans announced that CUDA will be coming to RISC-V. RISC-V International relayed the news on [1]X .

Not too surprising given the increasing interest of RISC-V in the data center. The NVIDIA Linux driver stack is also fairly contained and portable as shown in the past with POWER support alongside x86/x86_64/AArch64 and let's not forget when they even supported Itanium and SPARC on Solaris with their shared code-base driver too back in the day.

AMD for their part with the upstream open-source AMDKFD kernel compute driver can [2]already build on RISC-V and the ROCm user-space components can also be built on RISC-V. Recently we've even seen [3]AMDKFD / ROCm work on LoongArch processors too.



[1] https://x.com/risc_v/status/1946251939823370697

[2] https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDKFD-RISC-V-Linux-6.16

[3] https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDKFD-LoongArch-Patch



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