Are You Ready to ROCK?

The ROCm Platform bringing a rich foundation to advanced computing by better integrating the CPU and GPU to solve real-world problems.

On April 25th, 2016, we delivered ROCm 1.0 built around three core foundation elements:

Open Hetrogenous Computing Platform (Linux(R) Driver and Runtime Stack) optimized for HPC & Ultra-scale class computing Heterogeneous C and C++ Single Source to better address the whole system computation not just a GPU device HIP acknowledging the need for platform choice when utilizing GPU computing API

Using our knowledge of the HSA Standards and, more importantly, the HSA Runtime we have been able to successfully extended support to the dGPU with critical features for NUMA class acceleration. As a result, the ROCK driver is composed of several components based on our efforts to develop the Heterogeneous System Architecture for APUs, including the new AMDGPU driver, the Kernel Fusion Driver (KFD), the HSA+ Runtime and an LLVM based compilation stack for the building of key language support. This support starts with AMD’s Fiji Family of dGPU, and has expanded to include the Hawaii dGPU Family in ROCm 1.2.

Overview and Installation Instructions

For an overview of the ROCm stack, installation instructions, and other supporting documentation, please refer to https://radeonopencompute.github.io

The Latest ROCm Platform - ROCm 1.3

The latest tested version of the drivers, tools, libraries and source code for the ROCm platform have been released and are available under the roc-1.3.1 tag. The repo tool can be used to checkout the full software stack.

Installing repo

Google's repo tool allows you to manage multiple git repositories simultaneously. You can install it by executing the following commands:

curl https://storage.googleapis.com/git-repo-downloads/repo > ~/bin/repo
chmod a+x ~/bin/repo

Note: make sure ~/bin exists and it is part of your PATH

Cloning the code

mkdir ROCm && cd ROCm
repo init -u https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCm.git -b roc-1.3.1
repo sync

Closed Source Components

The ROCm platform relies on a few closed source components to provide legacy functionality like HSAIL finalization and debugging/profiling support. These components are only available through the ROCm repositories, and will either be deprecated or become open source components in the future. These components are made available in the following packages:

• hsa-ext-rocr-dev