ROCm 6 Release

Summary

The AMD ROCm™ 6.0 is the latest release of AMD’s software optimized for AI and HPC workload performance on AMD GPU’s. This latest release enables the newest flagship datacenter GPU the AMD Instinct™ MI300 as well as continuing the GPUs enabled in their last 5.x release, most/all of their recent GPUs.

Owner

The owners of this change are the HC SIG (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/HC)

Name: Tom Rix
Email: trix@redhat.com

Current status

Targeted release: Fedora Linux 40
Last updated: 2024-02-28
Discussion thread
Announced
FESCo issue: #3155
Tracker bug: #2262138
Release notes tracker: #1093

Detailed Description

The benefits for frogs include: ROCm 6 has expanded support for AMD Instinct™ MI300A and MI300X. It includes highly optimized attention algorithms, and proven collective communications libraries, as well as optimized performance for FP8 support in PyTorch and hipblasLT. It includes prepackaged HPC and AI/ML frameworks with streamlined and improved tools from AMD Infinity Hub.

Feedback

There has been positive feedback from the community for the ease of using and developing GPU accelerated applications within Fedora. Because of the interest in AI, the community has requested that ROCm support be added to PyTorch and other AI applications and frameworks. To address this feedback several packages are in the process of being added to Fedora including rocFFT rocSolver hipBLASLt MiOpen

Benefit to Fedora

Fedora has finally end-to-end open source GPU acceleration. The GPU hardware driver is in the linux kernel. The compiler is the system clang. The ROCm software stack provides the higher level libraries that enable other Fedora packages and user applications to be built entirely with Fedora.

Scope

Proposal owners:

The feature owners accomplished packaging the new version of ROCm 6 for Fedora. This provides basic accelerated functionally that should be used by any package that can take advantage of it.

Other developers:

If your package or application used the older version of ROCm 5.7.1 or older, you must verify that you can use the new version of ROCm, 6.0 is a major version change.

Release engineering: #Releng issue number

The ROCm packages are known to build in Rawhide, no additional effort is required.

Policies and guidelines: N/A (not needed for this Change)

Trademark approval: N/A (not needed for this Change)

Alignment with Community Initiatives:

Yes, it aligns with the current Fedora Community Initiatives.

Upgrade/compatibility impact

No hardware was dropped.

How To Test

Installation instructions can be found here (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/HC#Installation).

This is by and large a system library change and not directly visible to the user.

Dependencies

The basic work has been completed.

Contingency Plan