Wiki -> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/ROCm6Release

This document represents a proposed Change. As part of the Changes
process, proposals are publicly announced in order to receive
community feedback. This proposal will only be implemented if approved
by the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee.

== 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: [[User:trix| Tom Rix]]
* Email: t...@redhat.com


== 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.

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 ==
The basic work has been completed.

== Documentation ==
Documentation can be found here (https://rocm.docs.amd.com/en/latest/)

== Release Notes ==


-- 
Aoife Moloney

Fedora Operations Architect

Fedora Project

Matrix: @amoloney:fedora.im

IRC: amoloney
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