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What is ROCm?

ROCm is an open-source stack, composed primarily of open-source software, designed for graphics processing unit (GPU) computation. ROCm consists of a collection of drivers, development tools, and APIs that enable GPU programming from low-level kernel to end-user applications.

With ROCm, you can customize your GPU software to meet your specific needs. You can develop, collaborate, test, and deploy your applications in a free, open source, integrated, and secure software ecosystem. ROCm is particularly well-suited to GPU-accelerated high-performance computing (HPC), artificial intelligence (AI), scientific computing, and computer aided design (CAD).

ROCm is powered by AMDs Heterogeneous-computing Interface for Portability (HIP), an open-source software 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 necessary open source software compilers, debuggers, and libraries. ROCm is fully integrated into machine learning (ML) frameworks, such as PyTorch and TensorFlow.

ROCm projects

ROCm consists of the following drivers, development tools, and APIs.

Project Description
AMD Compute Language Runtimes (CLR) Contains source code for AMD's compute languages runtimes: {doc}HIP <hip:index> and OpenCL
AOMP A scripted build of LLVM and supporting software
Asynchronous Task and Memory Interface (ATMI) A runtime framework for efficient task management in heterogeneous CPU-GPU systems
Composable Kernel A library that aims to provide a programming model for writing performance critical kernels for machine learning workloads across multiple architectures
Flang An out-of-tree Fortran compiler targeting LLVM
Half-precision floating point library (half) A C++ header-only library that provides an IEEE 754 conformant, 16-bit half-precision floating-point type along with corresponding arithmetic operators, type conversions, and common mathematical functions
{doc}HIP <hip:index> AMDs GPU programming language extension and the GPU runtime
hipBLAS A BLAS-marshaling library that supports rocBLAS and cuBLAS backends
HIPCC A compiler driver utility that calls Clang or NVCC and passes the appropriate include and library options for the target compiler and HIP infrastructure
hipCUB A thin header-only wrapper library on top of rocPRIM or CUB that allows project porting using the CUB library to the HIP layer
hipFFT A fast Fourier transforms (FFT)-marshalling library that supports rocFFT or cuFFT backends
hipfort A Fortran interface library for accessing GPU Kernels
{doc}HIPIFY <hipify:index> A set of tools for translating CUDA source code into portable HIP C++
hipify-clang A Clang-based tool for translating CUDA sources into HIP sources
hipify-perl An autogenerated, perl-based script that translates CUDA source code into portable HIP C++
hipSOLVER An LAPACK-marshalling library that supports rocSOLVER and cuSOLVER backends
hipSPARSE A SPARSE-marshalling library that supports rocSPARSE and cuSPARSE backends
hipTensor AMD's C++ library for accelerating tensor primitives based on the composable kernel library
LLVM A toolkit for the construction of highly optimized compilers, optimizers, and run-time environments
MIGraphX A graph inference engine that accelerates machine learning model inference
MIOpen An open source deep-learning library
MIOpenGEMM An OpenCL general matrix multiplication (GEMM) API and kernel generator
MIOpenTensile Provides host-callable interfaces to Tensile library
MIVisionX A set of comprehensive computer vision and machine learning libraries, utilities, and applications
Radeon Compute Profiler (RCP) A performance analysis tool that gathers data from the API run-time and GPU for OpenCL and ROCm/HSA applications
RCCL A standalone library that provides multi-GPU and multi-node collective communication primitives
rocAL An augmentation library designed to decode and process images and videos
rocALUTION A sparse linear algebra library for exploring fine-grained parallelism on ROCm runtime and toolchains
RocBandwidthTest Captures the performance characteristics of buffer copying and kernel read/write operations
rocBLAS A BLAS implementation (in the HIP programming language) on the ROCm runtime and toolchains
rocFFT A software library for computing fast Fourier transforms (FFTs) written in HIP
ROCK-Kernel-Driver An AMDGPU Driver with KFD that is used by ROCm
ROCmCC A Clang/LLVM-based compiler
ROCm cmake A collection of CMake modules for common build and development tasks
ROCm Data Center Tool Simplifies administration and addresses key infrastructure challenges in AMD GPUs in cluster and data-center environments
ROCm Debug Agent Library (ROCdebug-agent) A library that can print the state of all AMD GPU wavefronts that caused a queue error by sending a SIGQUIT signal to the process while the program is running
ROCm Debugger (ROCgdb) A source-level debugger for Linux, based on the GNU Debugger (GDB)
ROCdbgapi The ROCm debugger API library
rocminfo Reports system information
ROCm SMI A C library for Linux that provides a user space interface for applications to monitor and control GPU applications
ROCm Validation Suite A tool for detecting and troubleshooting common problems affecting AMD GPUs running in a high-performance computing environment
rocPRIM A header-only library for HIP parallel primitives
ROCProfiler A profiling tool for HIP applications
rocRAND Provides functions that generate pseudorandom and quasirandom numbers
ROCR-Runtime User-mode API interfaces and libraries necessary for host applications to launch compute kernels on available HSA ROCm kernel agents
rocSOLVER An implementation of LAPACK routines on ROCm software, implemented in the HIP programming language and optimized for AMDs latest discrete GPUs
rocSPARSE Exposes a common interface that provides BLAS for sparse computation implemented on ROCm runtime and toolchains (in the HIP programming language)
rocThrust A parallel algorithm library
ROCT-Thunk-Interface User-mode API interfaces used to interact with the ROCk driver
ROCTracer Intercepts runtime API calls and traces asynchronous activity
rocWMMA A C++ library for accelerating mixed-precision matrix multiply-accumulate (MMA) operations
Tensile A tool for creating benchmark-driven backend libraries for GEMMs, GEMM-like problems, and general N-dimensional tensor contractions
TransferBench A utility to benchmark simultaneous transfers between user-specified devices (CPUs/GPUs)