The UXL Foundation is preparing its open standard accelerator programming model, touted by some as an alternative to Nvidia's CUDA platform, for "a spec release in Q4."
Formation of the Unified Acceleration Foundation
Announced last year, the Unified Acceleration (UXL) Foundation is a group of companies working under the auspices of the Linux Foundation to develop an open-standard accelerator programming model for the application world, including, of course, AI.
This would potentially make it a rival to Nvidia's software, such as its CUDA platform, which is long established but designed to work with the company's own GPU accelerator hardware.
Rod Burns, chair of the UXL Foundation Steering Committee, told The Register: "The fact is that the specification has been in development for a few years and has been released regularly over that time. This means we already have a mature specification for many of the foundations needed ."
