A happy day after Father’s Day! It was a week full of news, what with ISC and major vendor activities, here’s a quick (8:52) run-through: AMD’s new GPUs, ROCm 7.0 software and Helios ….
HPC News Bytes 20250616: AI Hardware-Software Wave from AMD, Fujitsu Chip, SIGHPC SC25 Travel Grants, HPC Guru Bids Adieu
June 15, 2025 by
AMD Announces ROCm 6.2 Software Stack for GPU Programming
August 8, 2024 by
AMD has released a version 6.2 of its ROCm software stack for GPU programming. Global AI GPU Product Marketing Manager Ronak Shah wrote a blog in support of the announcement: Whether you’re working on cutting-edge AI models, developing next-gen AI applications, or optimizing complex simulations, this new release brings amazing performance, efficiency, and scalability enhancements. […]
Join the AMD HPC User Forum for an HPC Sync at ISC 2024
April 26, 2024 by
[SPONSORED GUEST POST] The AMD HPC User Forum is holding a technical workshop prior to ISC High Performance on Sunday, May 12th, 2024, from 8:00AM – 12:00PM in Hamburg, Germany. The event will cover the AMD Instinct™ MI300 Series products, as well as the ROCm™ stack for HPC and AI.
HPC News Bytes 20240219: AI Safety and Governance, Running CUDA Apps on ROCm, DOE’s SLATE, New Advanced Chips
February 19, 2024 by
Happy President’s Day morning to everyone! Today’s HPC News Bytes races (6:22) around the HPC-AI landscape with comments on: developments in AI security and governance, running CUDA (NVIDIA) apps on ROCm (AMD), DOE’s Exascale Software Linear….
Video Highlights: PyTorch 2.0 on the ROCm Platform
November 5, 2023 by
From the recent PyTorch Conference we present a Lightning Talk: PyTorch 2.0 on the ROCm Platform by Douglas Lehr, Principal Engineer at AMD. Douglas talks about the current state of PyTorch on the ROCm platform including efforts to achieve day 0 support for Triton on Pytorch 2.0 as well as performance improvements, efforts with Huggingface, and other areas.
AMD Infinity Hub: Channeling the Power of AMD Accelerators for Faster Time-to-Science
February 9, 2022 by
[Sponsored Content] GPUs have revolutionized HPC and AI, carrying advanced performance forward where Moore’s Law dropped off. The result: exploding global demand for the chips. The GPU market reached $87 billion for 2021 with a projected CAGR of 33 percent through 2025, according to a December report by market analyst firm ReportLinker. Combining lightning-fast compute […]
Sylabs releases SingularityPRO 3.5
February 7, 2020 by
Today Sylabs announced the release of SingularityPRO 3.5, a popular container platform for HPC, supercomputing, and AI. “SingularityPRO 3.5, released January 21st, 2020, brings exciting new features to the long-term professionally supported version of the container platform. Based on the open source 3.5.2 release, SingularityPRO will receive security and bug fixes for 3 years, making it an ideal solution for the business-driven needs of enterprise customers containerizing their compute workloads.”
Experience The Exascale Era with AMD at ISC 2019
June 18, 2019 by
AMD is stepping up with renewed momentum in the HPC market at the ISC 2019 conference this week. “AMD invites you to explore future architecture and ecosystem technologies that are Powering the Exascale Era, and to hear how AMD will help unleash new realms of discovery for HPC with AMD EPYC processors, Radeon Instinct accelerators and the ROCm ecosystem.”
Video: AMD HPC Update
June 14, 2018 by
Jay Owen from AMD gave this talk at the HPC User Forum in Tucson. “With the introduction of new EPYC processor based servers with Radeon Instinct GPU accelerators, combined with our ROCm open software platform, AMD is ushering in a new era of heterogeneous compute for HPC and Deep Learning. Truly accelerating the pace of deep learning and addressing the broad needs of the datacenter requires a combination of high performance compute and GPU acceleration optimized for handling massive amounts of data with lots of floating point computation that can be spread across many cores.”
New AMD Radeon Instinct Rolls Out to Accelerate Machine Intelligence
December 12, 2016 by
“New Radeon Instinct accelerators will offer organizations powerful GPU-based solutions for deep learning inference and training. Along with the new hardware offerings, AMD announced MIOpen, a free, open-source library for GPU accelerators intended to enable high-performance machine intelligence implementations, and new, optimized deep learning frameworks on AMD’s ROCm software to build the foundation of the next evolution of machine intelligence workloads.”
