Spectral Compute, an artificial intelligence company from the United Kingdom, has unveiled SCALE, a set of tools to compile code originally designed for CUDA to run on other chips, currently only supporting AMD GPUs.
SCALE is a comprehensive toolset with commands that replace nvcc, allowing scripts in various projects to run instantly. Several projects like NVIDIA Thrust, llama-cpp, faiss, xgboost, and hashcat have already been tested with SCALE.
The SCALE project aims to implement the full API of CUDA, some components are developed in-house while others are wrapper libraries of AMD’s ROCm to have a similar interface to CUDA.
The SCALE project has its own license called SCALE Free Edition Public License, which allows free usage but with certain limitations, especially prohibiting reverse engineering of the distributed program. The project is currently in beta status.
TLDR: Spectral Compute introduces SCALE, a toolset to compile CUDA code for AMD GPUs, with a unique license and in beta phase.
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