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The HIP Environment and ROCm Kit - A lightweight open source build system for HIP and ROCm

5 mentions on Hacker News by 3 people: 0 stories, 5 comments · first 2025-06-06 · latest 2026-07-28

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  1. …for very certain partners but not serious, but this looks like they are being pretty go-for-it. https://github.com/ROCm/TheRock/issues/3477 It is a little alarming to watch AMD try to move. On the one hand I think Senior Leadership did a…
    comment by jauntywundrkind · 2026-07-28 · in Can AMD Break the CUDA Moat? AMD Advancing AI 2026
  2. …seem so close. But you need either the pre-compiled packages or 2+ year old Ubuntu to compile them. https://github.com/ROCm/TheRock/issues/3477
    comment by jauntywundrkind · 2026-04-26 · in Asahi Linux Progress Linux 7.0
  3. https://github.com/ROCm/TheRock/issues/3477 makes me quite sad for a variety of reasons. It shouldn't be like this. This work should be usable.
    comment by jauntywundrkind · 2026-04-13 · in Taking on CUDA with ROCm: 'One Step After Another'
  4. No. But you might need a specific version of rocm built for your gpu. These are built on https://github.com/ROCm/TheRock Right now AI support on AMD is officially only on specific models. But they are working hard to turn this around to…
    comment by kieranl · 2025-11-15 · in HipKittens: Fast and furious AMD kernels
  5. …There are some recent discussions on YouTube about it [1], including one with a senior VP [2]. [0]: https://github.com/ROCm/TheRock [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tASUo7UqNw&t=4551 [2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B8JOtS2Tew