I'm writing scientific software that has components (molecular dynamics) that are much faster on GPU. I'm using CUDA only, as it's the eaisiest to code for. I'd assumed this meant no-go on ARM Macs. Does this news make that false?

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wmf 16 hours ago | parent [-]

This driver doesn't support CUDA.

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ksec 15 hours ago | parent | next [-]

This comment should be pinned at the top.

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brcmthrowaway 14 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Isnt mlx a cuda translation later?

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ykl 12 hours ago | parent | next [-]

No, MLX is nothing like a Cuda translation layer at all. It’d be more accurate to describe MLX as a NumPy translation layer; it lets you write high level code dealing with NumPy style arrays and under the hood will use a Metal GPU or CUDA GPU for execution. It doesn’t translate existing CUDA code to run on non-CUDA devices.

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superb_dev 13 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

My understanding is that MLX is Apple’s CUDA, so a CUDA translation layer would target MLX

	▲	ykl 12 hours ago \| parent [-]
		No, it’s not. MLX is Apple’s NumPy more or less.

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wmf 13 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Does tinygrad support MLX?