ZLUDA, a CUDA translation layer that almost closed down last year, but got saved by an unknown party, this week shared an update about its steady technical progress and team expansion over the last quarter, reports Phoronix. The project continues to build out its capabilities to run CUDA workloads on non-Nvidia GPUs; for now, it is more focused on AI rather than on other things. Yet, work has also begun on enabling 32-bit PhysX support, which is required for compatibility with older CUDA-based games.
Perhaps, the most important thing for the ZLUDA project is that its development team has grown from one to two full-time developers working on the project. The second developer, Violet, joined less than a month ago and has already delivered important improvements, particularly in advancing support for large language model (LLM) workloads through the llm.c project, according to the update.
