"Open Compute" being trademarked is pretty ironic
this post was submitted on 15 Feb 2025
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TLDR: ROCM is AMD's variant for general purpose compute on GPUs, like CUDA is for NVIDIA.
OpenAI being for profit.
I use ROCM extensively (I write, design and train my own AIs/LLMs) and it's annoying of an acronym, especially in command lines:
--rocm-6.6.7.2-dev1 --cuda
But I figure it's a four letter acronym to match "CUDA".
I also pronounce it "Rock'em" in verbal versus "Koo'dah" (Barracuda).
Everything is about marketing and goodwill. You can just say something has "blast processing" and fail to elaborate.
https://www.opencompute.org/projects
This seems to be a non-profit
Well, ~~FSF~~ OSI would have trademarked "Open Source" if they could.
boring dystopia smth
Given the context, I choose to believe smth means "shaking my tiny head".
yes, what else should it mean?
shaking my (trademark) head?
Well, didn't think about that
ROCm SOCm robots?
I made this joke to people who work for AMD. I was a bit shocked that it hadn't occurred to them :D
Radeon Open Compute Mplatform
Right. Thirsty marketers ruin everything.
Would "Open Computing" be tradmarked? Kinda like how shows would change a letter or two in a name to not get lawsuit like "Metflix" or "MeTube"
They could have at least renamed it to Radeon Operational Compute method or something...
Radeon Open Computational Matrix'm