> PS: The name Triton was coined in mid-2019 when I released my PhD paper on the subject (http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~htk/publication/2019-mapl-tille...). I chose not to rename the project when the Triton inference server came out a year later since it's the only thing that ties my helpful PhD advisors to the project.
Are we sure that marketing article was not changed after the fact? The Nvidia Triton Release notes show 'Starting in release 20.03, TensorRT Inference Server is now called Triton Inference Server.' [0]
It kind of looks like the article just changed the heading later since in the article the docker images they refer to etc. are all still called 'tensorrtserver' which was the project's name before they changed naming in Release 20.03.
The OpenAI-Triton Author says on reddit: 'You can also look at the github history and you will see that there is no mention of the "Triton inference server" up until version 2.0, which wasn't out in 2019 (I ran `git reset --hard v1.9.0 ; grep -ir "triton" .`)' [1]
Also clashed with Triton[0], a demoscene group famous for its Crystal Dreams 2 demo, which featured zooming mandlebrot on 386 PC https://youtu.be/BLMUfBikxTY?t=182
My first thought exactly. This will cause nothing but confusion and Triton (the inference server) is well integrated into the space.
So it's especially weird to see it coming from OpenAI, and not a more random startup. It honestly makes no sense they would deliberately do this, unless there is some secret cult of Triton that is going on in the Bay Area world of AI/ML.
