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Very very happy to finally see AMD GPUs in cloud.

I love to root for an underdog. But I've been pulling for AMD for years and they just can't get their linux support to the same level of NVIDIA's. I speculate that they have undiagnosed design errors in their driver.

You should check out ROCm

http://hothardware.com/news/amd-rocm-13-adds-support-for-pol...

They are revamping their entire linux stack for HPC, heterogenous compute.

Still no OpenCL, still only promised as a "preview" for mid Dec.

I'm still very worried that AMD will fail, not because of the hardware, but due to their lacking software stack.

Fool me several times, shame on me.... ;) Really -- ever since the ATI acquisition I thought AMD could make it happen. And it's true that they have come a long way since then.

"New Linux Driver and Runtime Stack optimized for HPC & Ultra-scale class computing" sounds great, let's hope this time they can do it.

:) I've only been deeply involved with compute for the past two years, so I am still an optimist. I think AMD pretty much has no choice but to get it right this time: they need server and HPC dough to stay afloat.

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