COcorysama·Jun 8, 2025
Is https://github.com/KomputeProject/kompute + https://shader-slang.org/ getting there?
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General purpose GPU compute framework built on Vulkan to support 1000s of cross vendor graphics cards (AMD, Qualcomm, NVIDIA & friends). Blazing fast, mobile-enabled, asynchronous and optimized for advanced GPU data processing usecases. Backed by the Linux Foundation.
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5 sourcesKompute – Vulkan Alternative to CUDA
204 points · Open discussionKompute – General purpose GPU compute framework for cross vendor graphics cards
28 points · Open discussionDon't try to use it directly, you need a higher level library.
https://github.com/KomputeProject/kompute seems like what's taking off. There are also smaller ones like https://github.com/Glavnokoman/vuh etc.
In Blender 3.0 takes support for AMD GPUs to the next levelWhat I miss most in QubesOS is ability to connect my GPU hardware to a specific VM (or app, or container) the way I do the mic, camera, and USB peripherals. I don't need it for rendering the browser GUI, where the CPU is wholly adequate, but it would be helpful for e.g. mpv, and as a back-end for OpenCL/OpenMP programs. This seems like it ought to be much easier than trying to share such a GPU with multiple VMs simultaneously.
The problem seems to be how to do it securely. You could imagine faking GPU hardware for the VM image to talk to. But maybe Vulkan would be a better API? Has any work been done on a wrapper forwarding calls that refer to VM-mapped addresses to a native Vulkan? (What happens in WSL2?)
I find Kompute ( https://github.com/KomputeProject/kompute , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xz4fiQNmGSA ) that seems to be a serious
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attempt at building general computation infrastructure on top of Vulkan. Is exposing a Vulkan wrapper, and building compute kernels on top of that, a practical avenue?
This all seems like something someone must have throught through already, but I have not found anything published about it.