
The ROCm Ecosystem
ROCm is AMD’s open source software platform for GPU-accelerated high performance computing and
machine learning. Since the original ROCm release in 2016, the ROCm platform has evolved to support
additional libraries and tools, a wider set of Linux® distributions, and a range of new GPUs. This includes
the AMD Instinct™ MI100, the first GPU based on AMD CDNA™ architecture. 
The ROCm ecosystem has an established history of support for PyTorch, which was initially implemented
as a fork of the PyTorch project, and more recently through ROCm support in the upstream PyTorch
code. PyTorch users can install PyTorch for ROCm using AMD’s public PyTorch docker image, and can of
course build PyTorch for ROCm from source. With PyTorch 1.8, these existing installation options are
now complemented by the availability of an installable Python package. 
The primary focus of ROCm has always been high performance computing at scale. The combined