Posts by Marco Grond
Introducing ROCm-LS: Accelerating Life Science Workloads with AMD Instinct™ GPUs
- 18 July 2025
AMD is thrilled to announce the early access release of ROCm-LS (ROCm Life Science), a new cutting-edge software toolkit designed to accelerate life science computational workloads on AMD Instinct™ GPUs. ROCm-LS joins ROCm-DS as a part of AMD’s new family of toolkits aimed at providing powerful solutions to real world problems. Similar to ROCm-DS, ROCm-LS is built upon the established ROCm software ecosystem, offering a collection of components and libraries that address the pressing needs of the life science community. The early access release of ROCm-LS enables you to experiment with accelerating your life science workloads, such as digital pathology, automated medical image analysis, and feature extraction and enhancement in large TIFF files on AMD Instinct GPUs. Join us in exploring this tantalizing glimpse into the future capabilities of ROCm-LS, setting the stage for the next evolution in life science computing.
Announcing hipCIM: A Cutting-Edge Solution for Accelerated Multidimensional Image Processing
- 18 July 2025
In the rapidly evolving landscape of data science and computational imaging, hipCIM 1.0.0 introduces a powerful, GPU-accelerated open-source library that redefines multidimensional image processing for life sciences, biomedical research, and computational imaging. This open-source, accelerated software library redefines how multidimensional datasets are processed, offering unparalleled capabilities across scientific fields such as biomedical imaging, geospatial analytics, material sciences, life sciences, and remote sensing to name a few. With the initial release of hipCIM 1.0.0, AMD enters the arena, ready to push the boundaries of life science research and stand at the forefront of a new era in multidimensional image processing.
Introducing ROCm-DS: GPU-Accelerated Data Science for AMD Instinct™ GPUs
- 20 May 2025
AMD is excited to announce the early access release of ROCm-DS (ROCm Data Science), a new toolkit designed to accelerate data processing workloads on AMD Instinct™ GPUs. Built on the core ROCm toolkit, ROCm-DS promises to significantly enhance performance and scalability for data-intensive applications, catering to the pressing needs of today’s data-driven landscape. ROCm-DS is based on the open source libraries in the RAPIDS ecosystem. This collection of libraries enables a multitude of data processing operations, allowing new and existing workloads to tap into the computational advantages offered by AMD Instinct Datacenter GPUs. This early access release introduces two powerful new libraries: hipDF and hipGRAPH.
Accelerated JPEG decoding on AMD Instinct™ GPUs with rocJPEG
- 12 May 2025
With the increased growth in dataset sizes, the improvement of image capturing technology, the capacity to extract more information from visual data, and the move towards large language models including image data as input, efficient image processing and preparation has become a necessity to run these workloads in a timely manner. Although much attention is often focused on the computational aspects of these workloads, the fundamental tasks of data loading and preparation have become significant bottlenecks, limiting the throughput of the entire pipeline. Accelerated JPEG decoding is an essential step in optimizing workloads that rely on image data. Dive into this blog post to learn how to install and benchmark rocJPEG, as well as how the ROCm™ platform and AMD Instinct GPUs can help you achieve up to 50x faster decoding performance in 4k1.
ROCm 6.4: Breaking Barriers in AI, HPC, and Modular GPU Software
- 11 April 2025
In the rapidly evolving landscape of high-performance computing and artificial intelligence, innovation is the currency of progress. AMD’s ROCm 6.4 isn’t just another software update—it’s a leap forward that redefines the boundaries of what is possible for AI, developers, researchers, and enterprise innovators.