TIL ROCm stands for "Radeon [redacted] [redacted] mlatform

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kayzeekayzee@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 141 pts · 1y (9 replies)

"Open Compute" being trademarked is pretty ironic

Naz@sh.itjust.works · 36 pts · 1y

TLDR: ROCM is AMD's variant for general purpose compute on GPUs, like CUDA is for NVIDIA.

OpenAI being for profit.

I use ROCM extensively (I write, design and train my own AIs/LLMs) and it's annoying of an acronym, especially in command lines:

--rocm-6.6.7.2-dev1  --cuda

But I figure it's a four letter acronym to match "CUDA".

I also pronounce it "Rock'em" in verbal versus "Koo'dah" (Barracuda).

Everything is about marketing and goodwill. You can just say something has "blast processing" and fail to elaborate.

ulterno@programming.dev · 29 pts · 1y (2 replies)

https://www.opencompute.org/projects

This seems to be a non-profit

Well, FSF OSI would have trademarked "Open Source" if they could.

Adanisi@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 1y (1 reply)
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ulterno@programming.dev · 7 pts · 1y

Ahh! Wrong org. It was OSI, not FSF.

lesnout27@feddit.org · 10 pts · 1y (4 replies)

boring dystopia smth

GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 1y (3 replies)

Given the context, I choose to believe smth means "shaking my tiny head".

lesnout27@feddit.org · 4 pts · 1y (2 replies)

yes, what else should it mean?

zlatko@programming.dev · 4 pts · 1y (1 reply)

shaking my (trademark) head?

lesnout27@feddit.org · 3 pts · 1y

Well, didn't think about that

SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 55 pts · 1y (1 reply)

ROCm SOCm robots?

qupada@fedia.io · 19 pts · 1y

I made this joke to people who work for AMD. I was a bit shocked that it hadn't occurred to them :D

brisk@aussie.zone · 32 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Radeon Open Compute Mplatform

TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub · 12 pts · 1y

Right. Thirsty marketers ruin everything.

Shady_Shiroe@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 1y

Would "Open Computing" be tradmarked? Kinda like how shows would change a letter or two in a name to not get lawsuit like "Metflix" or "MeTube"