• Naz@sh.itjust.works
      37·
      1 month ago

      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.

      • Adanisi@lemmy.zipEnglish
        9·
        1 month ago

        Well, FSF would have trademarked “Open Source” if they could.

        I don’t think they would have?

        A) The FSF doesn’t even like the term

        B) They haven’t attempted to trademark “free software” or “software freedom” either.