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AMD ROCm 6.2 Release Appears Imminent For Advancing Open-Source GPU Compute


We appear to be on the heels of the AMD ROCm 6.2 software release for advancing the open-source AMD Radeon/Instinct GPU compute stack with new features.

With all the industry interest around the AMD Instinct MI300 series and beginning to gain more traction in the GPU compute space, there has been renewed interest and attention on the ROCm software stack especially with AMD working as well to bring formal ROCm support to more consumer GPUs. This morning making it appear imminent is now the AOMP AMD OpenMP device offloading compiler being tagged for the ROCm 6.2 release. Show Your Support: Did you know that the hundreds of articles written on Phoronix each month are mostly authored by one individual?

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