AMD-Sponsored Third-Party Project 'ZLUDA' Pulled Down

TapTechNews August 8th news, on August 6th, the technology media Phoronix reported that the AMD-sponsored third-party project ZLUDA has currently been pulled down.

ZLUDA Project Introduction

This project was advanced by the third-party developer Andrzej Janik and sponsored by AMD. It mainly uses the ROCm technology stack (Radeon OpenCompute Platform) to compatibly run NVIDIA's CUDA application programs on AMD hardware without modifying the source code.

TapTechNews reported in February this year that Janik announced the open source of the third-party project ZLUDA, and the relevant code was hosted on GitHub.

Changes

AMD then stopped funding the project but allowed the developer to make the source code public. But six months after going open source, AMD's lawyers revoked the decision to open source, and the project was also taken down from GitHub.

Janik said that the reason for taking down the project was not because of a legal lawsuit from NVIDIA, but the request of AMD's legal department.

He said that he also completed an implementation of NVIDIA GameWorks running on AMD GPUs, but the relevant code will never be open source.

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