Radeon's ROCm OpenCL Runtime Finally Open-Sourced

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Radeon's ROCm OpenCL Runtime Finally Open-Sourced

AMD has made good on their word to open-source their ROCm OpenCL stack...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...-OpenCL-Opened

[nevion]

Congratulations! Another significant milestone met!

[fuzz]

I almost don't believe it.

Hip hip hurray!!! Thank you AMD!!!

[illwieckz]

So, there is definitely no one reason to buy something else than an AMD discrete GPU if your workstation is running Linux:
http://dl.illwieckz.net/b/linux-gpu-...bility-matrix/

The complete stack is now opened, from kernel driver (amdgpu) to OpenGL 4.5 (radeonsi), Vulkan (radv), Direct3D9 (galliumnine) rendering and OpenCL (rocm) computing.

If you're running Linux, there is no point buying something else than an AMD Radeon and there is no point using something else than free software. No other vendor provides all these features, and AMD only provides that completeness with free software stack. Free software strikes again.

[jrch2k8]

Amazing job, Thank You AMD for the best support ever, waiting to retire my old damn good r9-280 once Vega is out(prolly going to Polaris price wise but until Vega I'm not sure, that damn HBM looks sexy)

[nevion]

So, there is definitely no one reason to buy something else than an AMD discrete GPU if your workstation is running Linux:
http://dl.illwieckz.net/b/linux-gpu-...bility-matrix/

The complete stack is now opened, from kernel driver (amdgpu) to OpenGL 4.5 (radeonsi), Vulkan (radv), DirectX9 (galliumnine) rendering and OpenCL (rocm) computing.

No, I'm afraid competition doesn't end. NVidia really made the game much harder hardware wise and especially software wise as we saw in GTC last week. Even in raw cuda enhancements hip already needs some work, but I think OpenCL is the most screwed by the disparity of feature support. Unfortunately they still got their work cut out for themselves and they'll have to be pioneers and carry OpenCL into a competitive age with where CUDA 9 is going.. But they're building a solid platform to fight from.

I'm a huge fan of this work but the business case is still difficult. Will have to see Vega 10 and any other surprises they have waiting, if any. TPUs, multi level synchronization, and what seems to be the end of warp divergence (which also cures lockless algorithm problems) are some of the biggest things they have to work on now. I wish them luck.

[smitty3268]

So since I'm lazy, can anyone list what the requirements to run this are?

Do you need the -pro kernel driver? I'm assuming upstream llvm isn't good enough, right?

[Nille_kungen]

\o/ Thanks AMD i have been waiting on this since the announcement September 2015
https://www.x.org/wiki/Events/XDC201...hou_amdgpu.pdf

Does this also mean that AMD vulcan support is a step closer now? We got radv until it's released.

[dungeon]

So, there is definitely no one reason to buy something else than an AMD discrete GPU if your workstation is running Linux:
http://dl.illwieckz.net/b/linux-gpu-...bility-matrix/

Instead of "Yes" on "Driver status" and under "Free/Libre" it should say "No(firmware required)"

[Spazturtle]

Instead of "Yes" on "Driver status" and under "Free/Libre" it should say "No(firmware required)"

1) Firmware isn't part of the driver.

2) Would you rather the firmware was on a read-only chip on the GPU?