AMD has released a new version of the Radeon Open Compute Linux stack for AMD graphics cards

The ROCm Platform brings a rich foundation to advanced computing by seamlessly integrating the CPU and GPU with the goal of solving real-world problems. This software enables the high-performance operation of AMD GPUs for computation oriented tasks in the Linux operating system.

New features and enhancements in ROCm 2.9
Initial release for Radeon Augmentation Library(RALI)
The AMD Radeon Augmentation Library (RALI) is designed to efficiently decode and process images from a variety of storage formats and modify them through a processing graph programmable by the user. RALI currently provides C API.

Quantization in MIGraphX v0.4
MIGraphX 0.4 introduces support for fp16 and int8 quantization. For additional details, as well as other new MIGraphX features, see MIGraphX documentation.

rocSparse csrgemm
csrgemm enables the user to perform matrix-matrix multiplication with two sparse matrices in CSR format.

Singularity Support
ROCm 2.9 adds support for Singularity container version 2.5.2.

Initial release of rocTX
ROCm 2.9 introduces rocTX, which provides a C API for code markup for performance profiling. This initial release of rocTX supports annotation of code ranges and ASCII markers. For an example, see this code.

Added support for Ubuntu 18.04.3
Ubuntu 18.04.3 is now supported in ROCm 2.9.

Features and enhancements introduced in previous versions of ROCm can be found in version_history.md

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