AMD Working Towards ROCm Support On Windows & Support For Consumer-Tier Radeon GPUs
AMD is bringing the Radeon Open Compute ecosystem (ROCm) to Windows and added support for the library to consumer-grade GPUs. This was found in the newest AMD ROCm 5.6.0 Alpha update documentation, mentioned in a tweet by user "nacasha."
The AMD ROCm library was introduced in 2016 to compete with NVIDIA's CUDA software, with full support for Linux. The difference AMD offered above NVIDIA was that the company chose to keep the library open-source to engineers, having complete access to the coding.
The AMD ROCm library supports AMD Instinct and Radeon Pro GPUs, which are part of the RDNA and CDNA architectures—for any additional support before this recent release required software modifications. For instance, users can utilize Windows Subsystem for Linux or virtualization software such as Docker. With the long-requested Windows support, a selection of AMD GPUs has opened support for ROCm.
AMD's ROCm allows researchers to access the backing of AMD Instinct accelerators to aid scientific research. The company created the ROCm platform for "open portability, supporting environments across multiple accelerator vendors and architectures." In the newest release, consumers and developers can access "turn-key HPC application and ML framework containers on Infinity hub, improved developer tools, and streamlined installation and enhanced documentation." All users can expect lower levels of kernel launch latency with increased performance.
The added benefits of ROCm are its AI capabilities. Access to machine learning to boost the timeframe of research in any field is a bonus for medicine and other essential sciences. Thanks to high-performance computing and artificial intelligence, what used to take years is now cut into a fraction of
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