ROCm
| ROCm | |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | AMD |
| Initial release | November 14, 2016 |
| Stable release | 6.4.0
/ April 11, 2025 |
| Repository | Meta-repository github |
| Written in | C, C++, Python, Fortran, Julia |
| Middleware | HIP |
| Engine | AMDgpu kernel driver, HIPCC, a LLVM-based compiler |
| Operating system | Linux, Windows |
| Platform | Supported GPUs |
| Predecessor | Close to metal, Stream, HSA |
| Size | <2 GiB |
| Type | GPGPU libraries and APIs |
| License | MIT License |
| Website | www |
ROCm is an Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) software stack for graphics processing unit (GPU) programming. ROCm spans several domains, including general-purpose computing on graphics processing units (GPGPU), high performance computing (HPC), and heterogeneous computing. It offers several programming models: HIP (GPU-kernel-based programming), OpenMP (directive-based programming), and OpenCL.
ROCm is free, libre and open-source software (except the GPU firmware blobs), and it is distributed under various licenses. ROCm initially stood for Radeon Open Compute platform; however, due to Open Compute being a registered trademark, ROCm is no longer an acronym — it is simply AMD's open-source stack designed for GPU compute.