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Introducing AMD CDNA™ 5 and the AMD Helios™ Rackscale Solution
Introducing AMD CDNA 5, the AMD Instinct MI455X GPU, and the AMD Helios rackscale solution: an open, integrated platform for rack-scale AI.
Spur: Modern GPU Job Scheduling for HPC and AI Workloads
Explore how Spur addresses pain points in GPU cluster management and how Spur-Cloud extends the platform into a complete GPU-as-a-Service solution.
Introducing ROCm™ AMD Infinity Context: A Purpose-Built KV Cache Tier for Distributed Inference
Explore ROCm AMD Infinity Context (AIC), AMD's open KV cache tier built on AMD Infinity Storage for distributed LLM inference.
SPIR-V on ROCm: A Portable IR for AMD GPUs
Learn how SPIR-V brings compile-once, specialize-on-device portability to AMD GPUs — with a reproducible HIP benchmark, trade-off analysis, and quick-start guide.
Fast Image Generation and Editing with SGLang Diffusion on AMD GPUs
Serve and benchmark diffusion models for image generation and editing on AMD Instinct GPUs using SGLang Diffusion on ROCm.
Occupancy Math on the AMD MI355X GPU (CDNA4): A From-First-Principles Guide
Derive MI355X GPU (CDNA4) occupancy by hand: the four limiters, MXFP8 GEMM examples, and why matrix-bound kernels hit peak throughput at low occupancy.
RDC and RocProfiler Compared to DCGM for Commonly Used Metrics
Learn how CLI commands and Python code help you evaluate app performance without a profiler, with examples explaining what each metric means.
Primus Tuning Agent: Closing the Configuration-Search Loop
Use the Primus Tuning Agent to automatically find optimal LLM training configurations on AMD Instinct GPUs.
A Practical Guide to Running LLMs on AMD Radeon™ GPUs
This guide describes how to run LLMs on AMD Radeon™ GPUs using a range of partner frameworks, tools, and runtimes, with step-by-step setup instructions and performance optimization tips.
Primus Projection: Estimate Memory and Performance Before You Train
Learn how to use the Primus projection tool to estimate memory and performance for large-scale LLM training on AMD Instinct™ accelerator platforms.
Agentic Diagnosis for LLM Training at Scale
Explore how AI agents diagnose LLM training incidents — from RCCL hangs to throughput regressions — in one prompt with MaxText-Slurm.
MaxText-Slurm: Production-Grade LLM Training with Built-In Observability
MaxText-Slurm: A unified launch system for production-grade LLM training with observability on AMD GPU clusters.