# HIP

HIP is both AMD's GPU programming language extension and the GPU runtime. This
page introduces the HIP runtime and other HIP libraries and tools.

## HIP Runtime

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:::{grid-item-card} {doc}`HIP Runtime <hip:index>`
The HIP Runtime is used to enable GPU acceleration for all HIP language based
products.

- {doc}`Documentation <hip:index>`
- [GitHub](https://github.com/ROCm-Developer-Tools/HIP)
- [Examples](https://github.com/amd/rocm-examples/tree/develop/HIP-Basic)

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## Porting tools

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:::{grid-item-card} {doc}`HIPIFY <hipify:index>`
HIPIFY assists with porting applications from based on CUDA to the HIP Runtime.
Supported CUDA APIs are documented here as well.

- {doc}`Documentation <hipify:index>`
- [GitHub](https://github.com/ROCm-Developer-Tools/HIPIFY/)
- [Changelog](https://github.com/ROCm-Developer-Tools/HIPIFY/blob/amd-staging/CHANGELOG.md)

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