• BombOmOmEnglish
    62•1 year ago

    This is a big deal as it kills one of the major vendor lock-ins nVidia has. Gives people much more choice in the products they can buy to achieve their tasks.

    • @Zarxrax@lemmy.worldEnglish
      41•1 year ago

      “AMD decided this year to discontinue funding the effort and not release it as any software product”.

      So AMD decided that it wasn’t worthwhile and so the developer released it on his own. AMDs decisions are just baffling. You still can’t even install Pytorch for rocm on Windows.

      • partial_accumenEnglish
        43•1 year ago

        So AMD decided that it wasn’t worthwhile and so the developer released it on his own. AMDs decisions are just baffling.

        AMD may have done this to avoid legal entanglements. It allows the solution to exist without a full endorsement from AMD and also lets the open source community drive it to where it needs to be as far as features and functionality.

        • Eager EagleEnglish
          9•1 year ago

          my thoughts too - now I really hope this project has a future in the open source env and it’s not just an ambitious endeavor

  • downhomechunkEnglish
    6•1 year ago

    Oddly enough, I’ve been trying to build rocm on slackware for the past week. It keeps failing out somewhere and throwing a HIP error that I can’t figure out. I wonder if this has anything to do with it.