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Comment by clarionbell

5 hours ago

No, not unless you have a very specific notion of determinism. Some basic operations use arithmetic with finite precision in a way that isn't associative and therefore isn't reproducible. And CUDA introduces its own set of problems[1].

[1] https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/cublas/index.html#results-repro...

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