There's nothing wrong to run CUDA on non-Nvidia hardware. CUDA has an interface that is reasonably well-designed, well-documented/reverse-engineered, and battle-tested for decades. What we need is not to invent another interface just under the name of 'open standard', but to implement the same interface. ROCm is exactly doing this, and so are other hardware SDKs such as MooreThread and Alibaba T-Head.

Most of these "alternatives" focus on CUDA C++, and overlook what actually makes CUDA interesting.

Already in 2020,

https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/cuda-refresher-the-gpu-com...

In this context AdaptiveCpp should also be mentioned. Started as a SYCL implementation, but recently-ish added a compiler for compiling a CUDA dialect to GPUs and CPUs from basically all vendors

There is also ZLUDA, which is open source and works on pre-compiled binaries.

https://github.com/vosen/ZLUDA

every CUDA alternative follows the same arc: bold launch, works for 3 operations, then a Discord server where the last message is 'any updates?' from 2024

I have been trying for cuda -> metal, to run it on mac, https://github.com/lulzx/cuda-metal

Its easier to just get rid of your legacy code entirely and use Vulkan for compute, or have your compiler emit SPIR-V directly.

No reason to tie yourself to Nvidia's moat.