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Guessing there are a few of us in a position where we are frustrated with our past experiences with ROCm software, (e.g. being awful to install, in the past the
by montebicyclelo 3y ago
Guessing there are a few of us in a position where we are frustrated with our past experiences with ROCm software, (e.g. being awful to install, in the past there were long guides with loads of steps to follow, and not the greatest clarity / simplicity in the instructions, and the only option they suggested if you messed it up was to reinstall the operating system, and there were multiple guides / pages and it wasn't clear which was the latest one, and then it only supported older versions of tensorflow / pytorch / jax, and only supported recent / higher end cards, etc. — it may be better now, this is my experience from I guess a few years ago); but who at the same time recognise that it would be great for GPU compute to be more affordable, and for there to be good competitors to Nvidia.
- latchkey 3y agoI don't think that anyone is trying to whitewash the past. All we can do is look to the future. Fact is that the demand for AI, has forced their hand. As I see it, AMD is trying to clean up their act as quickly as possible, but change of this magnitude, isn't going to happen over night. These sorts of updates to things, like their blogs, are baby steps in the right direction.
- montebicyclelo 3y agoThanks, I do agree with this, and I am rooting for them. Would love to find out at some point that it's turned around.
- hackerlight 3y agoAndrew Ng says ROCm has improved a lot in the last year and is no longer as bad as people make it out to be