Posts by Mohammed Faraaz Mustafa
ROCm 7.13: Expanding Hardware, Tools, and Reach
- 20 May 2026
AMD released ROCm Core 7.13, the AMD GPU Driver 31.30, and AMD GPU Virtualization 9.0. With these releases, ROCm software expands hardware support across enterprise datacenters. The platform introduces AMD’s latest Instinct accelerators, enables GPU virtualization on VMware ESXi and KVM, and delivers optimized performance for generative AI and large language models. The developer experience has been refined with streamlined profiling tools and open-source visibility into low-level performance analysis. As a result, AI development has become more practical across a broader range of hardware, spanning the latest AMD Instinct hardware and newly supported virtualized GPU partitioning modes.
ROCm 7.0: An AI-Ready Powerhouse for Performance, Efficiency, and Productivity
- 16 September 2025
Artificial intelligence now defines the performance envelope for modern computation. In this blog, we introduce the AI-centric ROCm 7.0 designed to help our community directly benefit from this dramatic paradigm shift. ROCm 7.0 delivers a platform purpose-built for the era of generative AI, large-scale inference and training, and accelerated discovery, helping you boost the performance, efficiency, and scalability of your workloads.
AMD ROCm: Powering the World’s Fastest Supercomputers
- 10 June 2025
From breaking the exaFLOP barrier with Frontier to setting new performance records with El Capitan, AMD is transforming what’s possible in high-performance computing (HPC). But the story goes beyond hardware. At the core of these world-class systems is ROCm, AMD’s open, high-performance software platform enabling new levels of scientific discovery and AI advancement.
The ROCm Revisited Series
- 06 June 2025
The ROCm Revisited series aims to revisit key concepts of the AMD ROCm software platform, tools, and optimizations, tailored for beginner and intermediate developers. This series shares our journey through the evolution of ROCm, highlighting the milestones, innovative technologies, and challenges we’ve overcome to establish leadership in the supercomputing space. Each post explores different aspects of ROCm’s development, focusing on how it has transformed industries, particularly in AI, machine learning, and high-performance computing (HPC). Through these blog posts, we’ll also discuss our commitment to open-source development and the future potential of distributed and energy-efficient computing. Below are the three blogs included in the series:
ROCm Revisited: Getting Started with HIP
- 06 June 2025
This blog is part of our ROCm Revisited series[1]. The purpose of this series is to share the story of ROCm and our journey through the changes and successes we’ve achieved over the past few years.