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		slavik81 on Nov 25, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What Is AMD ROCm? It used to be "Radeon Open Compute platform" with the m coming from platform. It's now "Radeon Open Ecosystem" with the c and the m from ecosystem [1]. The old expansion still shows up in a few places where it's difficult to remove. [1]: https://github.com/ROCmSoftwarePlatform/rocBLAS#rocblas

karmakaze on Nov 25, 2021 [–]

Ah so (R)adeon (O)pen E(c)osyste(m) stylized ROCm. I can see why it's not often spelled out, thanks.

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