ROCm

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49 sections

Contents

Background
Heterogeneous System Architecture Intermediate Language
Programming abilities
High-level programming
HIP programming
HIP(HCC) kernel language
Memory allocation
NUMA
Heterogeneous Memory Model and Shared Virtual Memory
ROCm code objects
Compute/Graphics interop
Low-level programming
Hardware support
Professional-grade GPUs
Consumer-grade GPUs
Software ecosystem
Machine learning
Supercomputing
Other acceleration & graphics interoperation
Other languages
Julia
Software distribution
Official
Third-party
Components
Low-level
ROCk {{En dash}} Kernel driver
ROCm {{En dash}} Device libraries
ROCt {{En dash}} Thunk
ROCr {{En dash}} Runtime
ROCm {{En dash}} CompilerSupport
Mid-level
ROCclr Common Language Runtime
OpenCL
HIP {{En dash}} [https://github.com/rocm-developer-tools/hip Heterogeneous Interface for Portability]
HIPCC
HIPIFY
GPUFORT
High-level
rocBLAS / hipBLAS
rocSOLVER / hipSOLVER
Utilities
Comparison with competitors
Nvidia CUDA
Intel OneAPI
Unified Acceleration Foundation (UXL)
See also
References
External links

ROCm is an Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) software stack for graphics processing unit (GPU) programming. ROCm spans several domains, including general-purpose computing on graphics processing units (GPGPU), high performance computing (HPC), and heterogeneous computing. It offers several programming models: HIP (GPU-kernel-based programming), OpenMP (directive-based programming), and OpenCL.

ROCm is free, libre and open-source software (except the GPU firmware blobs), and it is distributed under various licenses. The name initially stood for Radeon Open Compute platform; however, due to Open Compute being a registered trademark, the name no longer functions as an acronym.