What is ROCm? - Overview (#2096)

README.md

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-# AMD ROCm™
+# AMD ROCm™ Platform - Powering Your GPU Computational Needs
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+ROCm™ is an open-source stack for GPU computation. ROCm is primarily Open-Source
+Software (OSS) that allows developers the freedom to customize and tailor their
+GPU software for their own needs while collaborating with a community of other
+developers, and helping each other find solutions in an agile, flexible, rapid
+and secure manner.
+
+ROCm is a collection of drivers, development tools and APIs enabling GPU
+programming from the low-level kernel to end-user applications. ROCm is powered
+by AMD’s Heterogeneous-computing Interface for Portability (HIP), an OSS C++ GPU
+programming environment and its corresponding runtime. HIP allows ROCm
+developers to create portable applications on different platforms by deploying
+code on a range of platforms, from dedicated gaming GPUs to exascale HPC
+clusters. ROCm supports programming models such as OpenMP and OpenCL, and
+includes all the necessary OSS compilers, debuggers and libraries. ROCm is fully
+integrated into ML frameworks such as PyTorch and TensorFlow. ROCm can be
+deployed in many ways, including through the use of containers such as Docker,
+Spack, and your own build from source.
+
+ROCm’s goal is to allow our users to maximize their GPU hardware investment.
+ROCm is designed to help develop, test and deploy GPU accelerated HPC, AI,
+scientific computing, CAD, and other applications in a free, open-source,
+integrated and secure software ecosystem.
 
 This repository contains the manifest file for ROCm™ releases, changelogs, and
 release information. The file default.xml contains information for all