AMD Releases AOMP 15.0-0 For Radeon OpenMP Compiler, Prepares New "AFAR" Compiler

[phoronix]

Phoronix: AMD Releases AOMP 15.0-0 For Radeon OpenMP Compiler, Prepares New "AFAR" Compiler

AMD engineers on the ROCm team have released AOMP 15.0-0 on Monday as the newest version of their Radeon OpenMP compiler code. It also turns out they are working on another Radeon GPU compute compiler called "AFAR"...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=AMD-AOMP-15.0-0

[Linuxxx]

If it's just about installation strategy, it seems it would have been easier just naming AOMP and "AOMP Standalone" or so than having yet another new name in the increasingly large ROCm software space, so we'll see what other changes AFAR may usher in.

Thanks for pointing this out, Michael, as I wanted to say something in the same vein:

Why can't AMD make their compute offering as straightforward as nVidia is doing with CUDA?
Is it because they are doomed to play catch-up for all eternity?

For all the flak nVidia is getting here (mostly from people who don't use nVidia GPUs on Linux in the first place), all I have to do is install one single & already packaged driver and I'm good to go to enjoy a hardware-accelerated Blender experience.

Why can't I have the same on my AMD GPU?

Just asking...