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jakub-homola

opened on Nov 25, 2021

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What does the ROCm acronym stand for? I have seen "Radeon Open Compute ecosysteM", "Radeon Open Compute platforM", "Radeon Open eCosysteM", "Radeon Open CoMpute", but could not find anything on any official site.

Can you please clarify what it is supposed to stand for, and add it to the documentation?

Reacted by Maxime Chambonnet and Hariprasad Kannan

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1. ROCmSupport commented on Nov 25, 2021

   

   ROCmSupport

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   Its mainly Radeon Open Compute platforM
   Good point. I never worried about this information, anyhow its good to highlight in our documentation clearly.
   I will reach docs team for this addition. Thank you.

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2. cgmb commented on Jan 25, 2022

   

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   @ROCmSupport, I was under the impression that ROCm stood for "Radeon Open Ecosystem". Maybe send me a message and we can sort out the confusion.
3. ROCmSupport commented on Jan 28, 2022

   

   ROCmSupport

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   Hi @cgmb and all,
   We are coming up with a conclusion on this topic soon, please wait for sometime. We will come with proper documentation update.
   Thank you.
4. ROCmSupport commented on Jan 31, 2022

   

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   Hi All,
   Please find the answer here.

   ROCm is a brand name for ROCm™ open software platform (for software) or the ROCm™ open platform ecosystem (includes hardware like FPGAs or other CPU architectures).

   Note, ROCm no longer functions as an acronym.

   Hope this helps. Thank you.

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   closed this as completedon Jan 31, 2022
6. erkinalp commented on Apr 15, 2022

   

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   Radeon Open Compute module 😹
7. Tiffany-00 commented on Feb 28, 2023

   

   Tiffany-00

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   I have the true and best answer. Greg Stoner shared with me that it stands Radeon Open Compute Platform, so ROCp, but they concatenated all the letters before m and made ROCm. ROCm sounded better and was an easier mnemonic to remember and they were inspired by the AC/DC posters in their cubes.

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8. jnordenswan commented on Apr 14, 2023

   

   jnordenswan

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   Uppercase "ROC" with lowercase "m" is what I see.

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