Let's not exaggerate

Posted Jul 23, 2018 8:28 UTC (Mon) by Lennie (subscriber, #49641)
In reply to: Let's not exaggerate by Cyberax
Parent article: Deep learning and free software

In the article it was mentioned that those clusters don't run free software. And it would take a lot more time without it.

Posted Jul 23, 2018 9:06 UTC (Mon) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]

Orchestrating software is usually not a problem here, there are tons of free software available.

The problem is in CUDA or OpenCL implementations - the free stacks basically suck, so everybody uses proprietary drivers.