# HIP

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

## HIP Runtime

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The HIP Runtime is used to enable GPU acceleration for all HIP language based products.

- [HIP Runtime API Manual](https://rocmdocs.amd.com/projects/hipBLAS/en/rtd/)
- [Examples](https://github.com/amd/rocm-examples/tree/develop/HIP-Basic)

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## Porting tools

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HIPify assists with porting applications from based on CUDA to the HIP Runtime. Supported
CUDA APIs are documented here as well.

- [Reference Manual](https://rocmdocs.amd.com/projects/rocBLAS/en/rtd/)

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