Comment by _vertigo
13 hours ago
That’s insane. There should be a big team of people at AMD whose whole job is just to dogfood their stuff for training like this. Speaking of which, Amazon is in the same boat, I’m constantly surprised that Amazon is not treating improving Inferentia/Trainium software as an uber-priority. (I work at Amazon)
Where's the scope for an L7 promo in "Fixed a bunch of tiny issues that were making it hard to use Tranium/Inferentia with PyTorch"?
Amazon's compensation strategy, in which you primarily get a raise years in the future for tricking your management chain into promoting you is definitely bearing its rotten fruit.
> There should be a big team of people at AMD whose whole job is just to dogfood their stuff
if they had this management attitude, they wouldn't have been so far behind so as to need this action in the first place!
I'll just leave this here from 10 years ago:
> “Are we afraid of our competitors? No, we’re completely unafraid of our competitors,” said Taylor. “For the most part, because—in the case of Nvidia—they don’t appear to care that much about VR. And in the case of the dollars spent on R&D, they seem to be very happy doing stuff in the car industry, and long may that continue—good luck to them.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/04/amd-focusing-on-vr-m...
"car industry" is linked to the GPU-accelerated self-driving car work, ie, making neural networks run fast on GPUs: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/01/nvidia-outs-pascal-g...
Hardware companies being terrible at software is the norm. Nvidia is one of the rare companies that can successfully execute both.
Maybe Amazon is an example how this happens even to hardware divisions within software/logistics companies
How are their Linux drivers looking these days? Still a PITA to install?
I mean the fact there isn’t even today may speak to why AMD isn’t the contender it should be by this point.