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Optimize GPT Training: Enabling Mixed Precision Training in JAX using ROCm on AMD GPUs
- 06 September 2024
This blog builds on the nanoGPT model we discussed in A Guide to Implementing and Training Generative Pre-trained Transformers (GPT) in JAX on AMD GPUs. Here we will show you how to incorporate mixed precision training to the JAX-implemented nanoGPT model we discussed in our previous blog.
Image Classification with BEiT, MobileNet, and EfficientNet using ROCm on AMD GPUs
- 03 September 2024
Image classification is a key task in computer vision aiming at “understanding” an entire image. The outcome of an image classifier is a label or a category for the image as a whole, unlike object recognition where the task is to detect and classify multiple objects within an image.
Benchmarking Machine Learning using ROCm and AMD GPUs: Reproducing Our MLPerf Inference Submission
- 28 August 2024
Measuring the performance of new technologies is as old as human history, and often as intriguing (consider for example that we still compare the performance of new electric vehicle motors using horsepower). In the rapidly advancing field of machine learning (ML) MLPerf was established by MLCommons on May 2nd 2018 and quickly became the golden standard of measuring the accuracy, speed, and efficiency of AI. MLPerf provides benchmarks on training, HPC and Inference performance. Companies across the industry use MLPerf submissions to evaluate the performance of various GPUs and software platforms, and make their technology adoption decisions based on these results.
Performing natural language processing tasks with LLMs on ROCm running on AMD GPUs
- 21 August 2024
In this blog you will learn how to use ROCm, running on AMD’s Instinct GPUs, for a range of popular and useful natural language processing (NLP) tasks, using different large language models (LLMs). The blog includes a simple to follow hands-on guide that shows you how to implement LLMs for core NLP applications ranging from text generation and sentiment analysis to extractive question answering (QA), and solving a math problem.
Using AMD GPUs for Enhanced Time Series Forecasting with Transformers
- 19 August 2024
Time series forecasting (TSF) is a key concept in fields such as signal processing, data science, and machine learning (ML). TSF involves predicting future behavior of a system by analyzing its past temporal patterns, using historical data to forecast future data points. Classical approaches to TSF relied on a variety of statistical methods. Recently, machine learning techniques have been increasingly used for TSF, generating discussions within the community about whether these modern approaches outperform the classical statistical ones (see: Are Transformers Effective for Time Series Forecasting? and Yes, Transformers are Effective for Time Series Forecasting (+ Autoformer)).
Inferencing with Grok-1 on AMD GPUs
- 09 August 2024
We demonstrate that the massive Grok-1 model from xAI can run seamlessly on the AMD MI300X GPU accelerator by leveraging the ROCm software platform.
Optimizing RoBERTa: Fine-Tuning with Mixed Precision on AMD
- 29 July 2024
In this blog we explore how to fine-tune the Robustly Optimized BERT Pretraining Approach (RoBERTa) large language model, with emphasis on PyTorch’s mixed precision capabilities. Specifically, we explore using AMD GPUs for mixed precision fine-tuning to achieve faster model training without any major impacts on accuracy.
Graph analytics on AMD GPUs using Gunrock
- 29 July 2024
Graphs and graph analytics are related concepts that can help us understand complex data and relationships. In this context, a graph is a mathematical model that represents entities (called nodes or vertices) and their connections (called edges or links). And graph analytics is a form of data analysis that uses graph structures and algorithms to reveal insights from the data.
Using statistical methods to reliably compare algorithm performance in large generative AI models with JAX Profiler on AMD GPUs
- 22 July 2024
This blog provides a comprehensive guide on measuring and comparing the performance of various algorithms in a JAX-implemented generative AI model. Leveraging the JAX Profiler and statistical analysis, this blog demonstrates how to reliably evaluate key steps and compare algorithm performance on AMD GPUs.
DBRX Instruct on AMD GPUs
- 11 July 2024
In this blog, we showcase DBRX Instruct, a mixture-of-experts large language model developed by Databricks, on a ROCm-capable system with AMD GPUs.
Accelerate PyTorch Models using torch.compile on AMD GPUs with ROCm
- 11 July 2024
PyTorch 2.0 introduces torch.compile(), a tool to vastly accelerate PyTorch code and models. By converting PyTorch code into highly optimized kernels, torch.compile delivers substantial performance improvements with minimal changes to the existing codebase. This feature allows for precise optimization of individual functions, entire modules, and complex training loops, providing a versatile and powerful tool for enhancing computational efficiency.
Accelerating models on ROCm using PyTorch TunableOp
- 03 July 2024
In this blog, we will show how to leverage PyTorch TunableOp to accelerate models using ROCm on AMD GPUs. We will discuss the basics of General Matrix Multiplications (GEMMs), show an example of tuning a single GEMM, and finally, demonstrate real-world performance gains on an LLM (gemma) using TunableOp.
A Guide to Implementing and Training Generative Pre-trained Transformers (GPT) in JAX on AMD GPUs
- 02 July 2024
2 July, 2024 by Douglas Jia.
Mamba on AMD GPUs with ROCm
- 28 June 2024
28, Jun 2024 by Sean Song, Jassani Adeem, Moskvichev Arseny.
TensorFlow Profiler in practice: Optimizing TensorFlow models on AMD GPUs
- 18 June 2024
TensorFlow Profiler consists of a set of tools designed to measure resource utilization and performance during the execution of TensorFlow models. It offers insights into how a model interacts with hardware resources, including execution time and memory usage. TensorFlow Profiler helps in pinpointing performance bottlenecks, allowing us to fine-tune the execution of models for improved efficiency and faster outcomes which can be crucial in scenarios where near-real-time predictions are required.
Stone Ridge Expands Reservoir Simulation Options with AMD Instinct™ Accelerators
- 10 June 2024
Stone Ridge Technology (SRT) pioneered the use of GPUs for high performance reservoir simulation (HPC) nearly a decade ago with ECHELON, its flagship software product. ECHELON, the first of its kind, engineered from the outset to harness the full potential of massively parallel GPUs, stands apart in the industry for its power, efficiency, and accuracy. Now, ECHELON has added support for AMDInstinct accelerators into its simulation engine, offering new flexibility and optionality to its clients.
SmoothQuant model inference on AMD Instinct MI300X using Composable Kernel
- 31 May 2024
The AMD ROCm™ Composable Kernel (CK) library provides a programming model for writing performance-critical kernels for machine learning workloads. It generates a general-purpose kernel during the compilation phase through a C++ template, enabling developers to achieve operation fusions on different data precisions.
Unveiling performance insights with PyTorch Profiler on an AMD GPU
- 29 May 2024
29 May, 2024 by Phillip Dang.
Panoptic segmentation and instance segmentation with Detectron2 on AMD GPUs
- 23 May 2024
23, May 2024 by Vara Lakshmi Bayanagari.
Siemens taps AMD Instinct™ GPUs to expand high-performance hardware options for Simcenter STAR-CCM+
- 16 May 2024
Siemens recently announced that its Simcenter STAR-CCM+ multi-physics computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software now supports AMD Instinct™ GPUs for GPU-native computation. This move addresses its users’ needs for computational efficiency, reduced simulation costs and energy usage, and greater hardware choice.
AMD Collaboration with the University of Michigan offers High Performance Open-Source Solutions to the Bioinformatics Community
- 16 May 2024
Long read DNA sequencing technology is revolutionizing genetic diagnostics and precision medicine by helping us discover structural variants and assemble whole genomes. It also helps us study evolutionary relationships. Lower sequencing costs and high-throughput portable long read sequencers are revolutionizing precision medicine today. Long read sequencers from the top manufacturers including Oxford Nanopore (ONT) and PacBio, can produce reads that are much longer than previous generations of sequencers. However, long reads vary in length and are significantly more error prone than short reads. Sequence alignment (on CPUs) is one of the main bottlenecks in long read processing workflows.
Accelerating Large Language Models with Flash Attention on AMD GPUs
- 15 May 2024
15, May 2024 by Clint Greene.
Reading AMD GPU ISA
- 13 May 2024
For an application developer it is often helpful to read the Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) for the GPU architecture that is used to perform its computations. Understanding the instructions of the pertinent code regions of interest can help in debugging and achieving performance optimization of the application.
AMD in Action: Unveiling the Power of Application Tracing and Profiling
- 07 May 2024
Rocprof is a robust tool designed to analyze and optimize the performance of HIP programs on AMD ROCm platforms, helping developers pinpoint and resolve performance bottlenecks. Rocprof provides a variety of profiling data, including performance counters, hardware traces, and runtime API/activity traces.
Training a Neural Collaborative Filtering (NCF) Recommender on an AMD GPU
- 30 April 2024
30, Apr 2024 by Vara Lakshmi Bayanagari.
Multimodal (Visual and Language) understanding with LLaVA-NeXT
- 26 April 2024
26, Apr 2024 by Phillip Dang.
Application portability with HIP
- 26 April 2024
Many scientific applications run on AMD-equipped computing platforms and supercomputers, including Frontier, the first Exascale system in the world. These applications, coming from a myriad of science domains, were ported to run on AMD GPUs using the Heterogeneous-compute Interface for Portability (HIP) abstraction layer. HIP enables these High-Performance Computing (HPC) facilities to transition their CUDA codes to run and take advantage of the latest AMD GPUs. The effort involved in porting these scientific applications varies from a few hours to a few weeks and largely depends on the complexity of the original source code. Figure 1 shows several examples of applications that have been ported and the corresponding porting effort.
Unlocking Vision-Text Dual-Encoding: Multi-GPU Training of a CLIP-Like Model
- 24 April 2024
24 Apr, 2024 by Sean Song.
Transforming Words into Motion: A Guide to Video Generation with AMD GPU
- 24 April 2024
24 Apr, 2024 by Douglas Jia.
C++17 parallel algorithms and HIPSTDPAR
- 18 April 2024
The C++17 standard added the concept of parallel algorithms to the
pre-existing C++ Standard Library. The parallel version of algorithms like
std::transform maintain the same signature as the regular serial version,
except for the addition of an extra parameter specifying the
execution policy to use. This flexibility allows users that are already
using the C++ Standard Library algorithms to take advantage of multi-core
architectures by just introducing minimal changes to their code.
Programming AMD GPUs with Julia
- 16 April 2024
Julia is a high-level, general-purpose dynamic programming language that automatically compiles to efficient native code via LLVM, and supports multiple platforms. With LLVM, comes the support for programming GPUs, including AMD GPUs.
Interacting with Contrastive Language-Image Pre-Training (CLIP) model on AMD GPU
- 16 April 2024
16, Apr 2024 by Sean Song.
Instruction fine-tuning of StarCoder with PEFT on multiple AMD GPUs
- 16 April 2024
16 Apr, 2024 by Douglas Jia.
Affinity part 2 - System topology and controlling affinity
- 16 April 2024
In Part 1 of the Affinity blog series, we looked at the importance of setting affinity for High Performance Computing (HPC) workloads. In this blog post, our goals are the following:
Affinity part 1 - Affinity, placement, and order
- 16 April 2024
Modern hardware architectures are increasingly complex with multiple sockets, many cores in each Central Processing Unit (CPU), Graphical Processing Units (GPUs), memory controllers, Network Interface Cards (NICs), etc. Peripherals such as GPUs or memory controllers will often be local to a CPU socket. Such designs present interesting challenges in optimizing memory access times, data transfer times, etc. Depending on how the system is built, hardware components are connected, and the workload being run, it may be advantageous to use the resources of the system in a specific way. In this article, we will discuss the role of affinity, placement, and order in improving performance for High Performance Computing (HPC) workloads. A short case study is also presented to familiarize you with performance considerations on a node in the Frontier supercomputer. In a follow-up article, we also aim to equip you with the tools you need to understand your system’s hardware topology and set up affinity for your application accordingly.
Enhancing LLM Accessibility: A Deep Dive into QLoRA Through Fine-tuning Llama 2 on a single AMD GPU
- 15 April 2024
15, Apr 2024 by Sean Song.
GPU Unleashed: Training Reinforcement Learning Agents with Stable Baselines3 on an AMD GPU in Gymnasium Environment
- 11 April 2024
11 Apr, 2024 by Douglas Jia.
Using the ChatGLM-6B bilingual language model with AMD GPUs
- 04 April 2024
4, Apr 2024 by Phillip Dang.
Total body segmentation using MONAI Deploy on an AMD GPU
- 04 April 2024
4, Apr 2024 by Vara Lakshmi Bayanagari.
Building semantic search with SentenceTransformers on AMD
- 04 April 2024
4 Apr, 2024 by Fabricio Flores.
Scale AI applications with Ray
- 01 April 2024
1, Apr 2024 by Vicky Tsang<vicktsan>, {hoverxref}Logan Grado, {hoverxref}Eliot Li
Large language model inference optimizations on AMD GPUs
- 15 March 2024
15, Mar 2024 by Seungrok Jung.
Efficient image generation with Stable Diffusion models and ONNX Runtime using AMD GPUs
- 23 February 2024
23 Feb, 2024 by Douglas Jia.
Simplifying deep learning: A guide to PyTorch Lightning
- 08 February 2024
8, Feb 2024 by Phillip Dang.
Two-dimensional images to three-dimensional scene mapping using NeRF on an AMD GPU
- 07 February 2024
7, Feb 2024 by Vara Lakshmi Bayanagari.
Using LoRA for efficient fine-tuning: Fundamental principles
- 05 February 2024
5, Feb 2024 by Sean Song.
Fine-tune Llama 2 with LoRA: Customizing a large language model for question-answering
- 01 February 2024
1, Feb 2024 by Sean Song.
Pre-training BERT using Hugging Face & TensorFlow on an AMD GPU
- 29 January 2024
29, Jan 2024 by Vara Lakshmi Bayanagari.
Pre-training BERT using Hugging Face & PyTorch on an AMD GPU
- 26 January 2024
26, Jan 2024 by Vara Lakshmi Bayanagari.
Accelerating XGBoost with Dask using multiple AMD GPUs
- 26 January 2024
26 Jan, 2024 by Clint Greene.
Pre-training a large language model with Megatron-DeepSpeed on multiple AMD GPUs
- 24 January 2024
24 Jan, 2024 by Douglas Jia.
Efficient image generation with Stable Diffusion models and AITemplate using AMD GPUs
- 24 January 2024
24 Jan, 2024 by Douglas Jia.
Efficient deployment of large language models with Text Generation Inference on AMD GPUs
- 24 January 2024
24 Jan, 2024 by Douglas Jia.
Jacobi Solver with HIP and OpenMP offloading
- 15 September 2023
15 Sept, 2023 by Asitav Mishra, Rajat Arora, Justin Chang.
Creating a PyTorch/TensorFlow code environment on AMD GPUs
- 11 September 2023
Note: This blog was previously part of the AMD lab notes blog series.
Finite difference method - Laplacian part 4
- 18 July 2023
18 Jul, 2023 by Justin Chang, Thomas Gibson, Sean Miller.
GPU-aware MPI with ROCm
- 08 June 2023
Note: This blog was previously part of the AMD lab notes blog series.
Register pressure in AMD CDNA™2 GPUs
- 17 May 2023
Note: This blog was previously part of the AMD lab notes blog series.
Finite difference method - Laplacian part 3
- 11 May 2023
11 May, 2023 by Justin Chang, Rajat Arora, Thomas Gibson, Sean Miller, Ossian O’Reilly.
Introduction to profiling tools for AMD hardware
- 12 April 2023
Note: This blog was previously part of the AMD lab notes blog series.
AMD Instinct™ MI200 GPU memory space overview
- 09 March 2023
Note: This blog was previously part of the AMD lab notes blog series.
AMD ROCm™ installation
- 26 January 2023
Note: This blog was previously part of the AMD lab notes blog series.
Finite difference method - Laplacian part 2
- 04 January 2023
4 Jan, 2023 by Justin Chang, Rajat Arora, Thomas Gibson, Sean Miller, Ossian O’Reilly.
Finite difference method - Laplacian part 1
- 14 November 2022
14 Nov, 2022 by Justin Chang, Rajat Arora, Thomas Gibson, Sean Miller, Ossian O’Reilly.
AMD matrix cores
- 14 November 2022
Note: This blog was previously part of the AMD lab notes blog series.