well done AMD pity others dont seem to be following suit, the F@H guys are doing really well, now if we could only convince all the worlds major pc owners whose work systems are probably sat idle whilst folks work from home to leverage the unused systems to the same it would be truly massive
Yup, Rosetta@home is also participating. Friendly reminder to everyone that TeAm Anandtech participates on all the projects listed above. We will always welcome new contributions!
The Intel page is nothing more than an AD for Intels "powerful supercomputing" AMD gave stuff away for free to anyone that can use it meaningfully
Nvidia has donated zip they just have a waffle page showing how good they are at enabling folks to research and work from home.
IBM have donated Machine time but if you look at the page its really all about pushing the image of IBM as a solutions provider but kudos for the donation
Microsoft also has donated and to be honest with the Gates initiatives always has but Gates is no longer connected officially to MS
So maybe we should look at the actual donation not just at the fluffing on the page.
Of course all these institutions AMD included are doing this for PR dont get the impression am not aware of that but AMD has so far given away server equipment that can be used as well as donations to Medical groups across the world not just time on servers which of course also needed by many and in itself expensive All the above companies belong to the HPC consortium including AMD
Did you even bother read the links you shared in any detail?
Nvidia's page is 90% marketing fluff about how great their products are but with a COVID palette-swap, and oh yes, some guy that works for them designed a ventilator. Most of what they've done is join a few organisations and big-up their toolkits, which admittedly are super useful for this, but were already there beforehand anyway. It's not exactly a standout effort - the use of their systems for Folding@Home appears to be the most direct contribution.
Intel's is very much the same - it's a marketing page, designed to talk about how amazing they are for doing the same basic stuff that basically everybody else is doing - but blue flavoured!
IBM's goes along the same lines - "people bought our stuff and did good things with it" mixed in with "look how caring our HR are taking great pains to appear to be in public". The BOINC stuff is good, though.
Microsoft's "Help for Jobseekers" probably comes closest to a similar-scale effort, though with most things Microsoft give away for free it's eminently self-serving - they're trying to create a digital future where people are intimately familiar with their products. Standard stuff, really.
Then Intel and Nvidia should be able to match it a few times over, right? ... Right guys?
... Helloooo?
(It's a good PR move by AMD, I'll admit - getting their products and toolchains into the hands of people who now have no excuse not to use it. CUDA may be ubiquitous but you can't beat free).
CUDA is only ubiquitous because NV paid devs large sums of money to code programs to make use of it. OpenCL is just as capable (Even moreso), is open-source and operates on ANY GPU.
Support for OpenCL of late has shown cracks of late. At launch, AMD's 5700 series GPUs didn't have (very good) driver support for OpenCL. Initial benchmarks all but failed to run OpenCL apps. While they came out with updates to largely remedy the issue, I'm not sure it has the support it once did.
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alufan - Monday, September 14, 2020 - link
well done AMD pity others dont seem to be following suit, the F@H guys are doing really well, now if we could only convince all the worlds major pc owners whose work systems are probably sat idle whilst folks work from home to leverage the unused systems to the same it would be truly massiveOperandi - Monday, September 14, 2020 - link
IBM World Community Grid (BOINC) have a a COVID project running too. As well as other medical research and climate science projects.ZipSpeed - Monday, September 14, 2020 - link
Yup, Rosetta@home is also participating. Friendly reminder to everyone that TeAm Anandtech participates on all the projects listed above. We will always welcome new contributions!edzieba - Monday, September 14, 2020 - link
"pity others dont seem to be following suit"Ahem:
https://developer.nvidia.com/research/covid-19
https://www.intel.co.uk/content/www/uk/en/corporat...
https://newsroom.ibm.com/COVID-19#science-and-rese...
https://news.microsoft.com/covid-19-response/
etc.
Nvidia also appear to be running F@H themselves on SaturnV: https://stats.foldingathome.org/donors
Jorgp2 - Monday, September 14, 2020 - link
But that doesn't fit into his imaginary world.alufan - Tuesday, September 15, 2020 - link
Facts am calling out these so called supercomputing giants yes they have done a lot but they could do a lot more all of themSpunjji - Tuesday, September 15, 2020 - link
For someone talking about "imaginary worlds", you sure didn't bother reading any of those links 😏alufan - Tuesday, September 15, 2020 - link
The Intel page is nothing more than an AD for Intels "powerful supercomputing" AMD gave stuff away for free to anyone that can use it meaningfullyNvidia has donated zip they just have a waffle page showing how good they are at enabling folks to research and work from home.
IBM have donated Machine time but if you look at the page its really all about pushing the image of IBM as a solutions provider but kudos for the donation
Microsoft also has donated and to be honest with the Gates initiatives always has but Gates is no longer connected officially to MS
So maybe we should look at the actual donation not just at the fluffing on the page.
Of course all these institutions AMD included are doing this for PR dont get the impression am not aware of that but AMD has so far given away server equipment that can be used as well as donations to Medical groups across the world not just time on servers which of course also needed by many and in itself expensive
All the above companies belong to the HPC consortium including AMD
edzieba - Tuesday, September 15, 2020 - link
"So maybe we should look at the actual donation not just at the fluffing on the page."OK then, if you only want to cash donations and want to ignore hardware donations or compute time donations:
AMD: $1m (https://www.anandtech.com/show/15731/amd-covid19-h...
Intel: $6m (https://www.anandtech.com/show/15731/amd-covid19-h...
Nvidia: $10.6m (though does not break out employee matched donations: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/csr/our-response-to-c...
The majority of donations from tech companies has been tech (hardware or compute time) rather than cash.
Spunjji - Tuesday, September 15, 2020 - link
lol - I posted much the same rant back at edzieba, then saw you'd already done it. Oh well :DAdhesiveTeflon - Wednesday, September 23, 2020 - link
Or you can quickly google the donations made by the companies. I found this in 5 seconds:https://fortune.com/2020/04/07/intel-coronavirus-a...
Spunjji - Tuesday, September 15, 2020 - link
Did you even bother read the links you shared in any detail?Nvidia's page is 90% marketing fluff about how great their products are but with a COVID palette-swap, and oh yes, some guy that works for them designed a ventilator. Most of what they've done is join a few organisations and big-up their toolkits, which admittedly are super useful for this, but were already there beforehand anyway. It's not exactly a standout effort - the use of their systems for Folding@Home appears to be the most direct contribution.
Intel's is very much the same - it's a marketing page, designed to talk about how amazing they are for doing the same basic stuff that basically everybody else is doing - but blue flavoured!
IBM's goes along the same lines - "people bought our stuff and did good things with it" mixed in with "look how caring our HR are taking great pains to appear to be in public". The BOINC stuff is good, though.
Microsoft's "Help for Jobseekers" probably comes closest to a similar-scale effort, though with most things Microsoft give away for free it's eminently self-serving - they're trying to create a digital future where people are intimately familiar with their products. Standard stuff, really.
nandnandnand - Monday, September 14, 2020 - link
This donation by AMD is what, 1000 GPUs? Less than $1 million?Spunjji - Tuesday, September 15, 2020 - link
Then Intel and Nvidia should be able to match it a few times over, right?...
Right guys?
...
Helloooo?
(It's a good PR move by AMD, I'll admit - getting their products and toolchains into the hands of people who now have no excuse not to use it. CUDA may be ubiquitous but you can't beat free).
deksman2 - Wednesday, September 16, 2020 - link
CUDA is only ubiquitous because NV paid devs large sums of money to code programs to make use of it.OpenCL is just as capable (Even moreso), is open-source and operates on ANY GPU.
catavalon21 - Thursday, September 24, 2020 - link
Support for OpenCL of late has shown cracks of late. At launch, AMD's 5700 series GPUs didn't have (very good) driver support for OpenCL. Initial benchmarks all but failed to run OpenCL apps. While they came out with updates to largely remedy the issue, I'm not sure it has the support it once did.catavalon21 - Thursday, September 24, 2020 - link
#proofread fail. Too many "of late"s.nickvoz - Saturday, September 26, 2020 - link
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