Intermediate Graphics Library, a cross-platform GPU abstraction library by Meta

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IGL doesn&#x27;t translate shaders, so you still need a separate solution for that.<p>Other options would be bgfx, or sokol_gfx, or WebGPU, or Vulkan+moltenVK, or even full game engines: Unreal or Unity or Godot.

So, like wgpu, but in C++ and by Meta?

Is the idea here to also compile pytorch to this(other than CUDA) so they can leverage those APIs(Vulkan, OpenCL etc) for other platforms?

Are there any translation layers for GPU? E.g. from Vulkan to WebGPU

Why not use webgpu?

The samples are just hideous. Platform selection #if preprocessors every 5 lines. I would never want to maintain code like this

The GPU and ML libraries, frameworks, abstractions, and drivers have long since felt to me like the famed &quot;Linux audio jungle&quot; of old. At least I understand why ffmpeg, gstreamer, OSS, ALSA, PulseAudio, and PipeWire all exist.<p>CUDA, OpenCL, Vulkan, Metal, PyTorch, TensorFlow, I don&#x27;t understand. They all build on CUDA and AMD &#x2F; Intel &#x2F; CPUs are treated as 2nd-class citizens, right?