SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 12, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) at this time introduced it’s becoming a member of the newly created PyTorch Foundation as a founding member. The basis, which will likely be a part of the non-profit Linux Foundation, will drive adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) tooling by fostering and sustaining an ecosystem of open supply tasks with PyTorch, the Machine Learning (ML) software program framework initially created and fostered by Meta.
As a founding member, AMD joins others within the trade to prioritize the continued development of PyTorch’s vibrant group. Supported by improvements such as the AMD ROCm™ open software program platform, AMD Instinct™ accelerators, Adaptive SoCs and CPUs, AMD will assist the PyTorch Foundation by working to democratize state-of-the-art instruments, libraries and different elements to make these ML improvements accessible to everybody.
“Open software is critical to advancing HPC, AI and ML research, and we’re ready to bring our experience with open software platforms and innovation to the PyTorch foundation,” stated Brad McCredie, company vice chairman, Data Center and Accelerated Processing, AMD. “AMD Instinct accelerators and ROCm software power important HPC and ML sites around the world, from exascale supercomputers at research labs to major cloud deployments showcasing the convergence of HPC and AI/ML. Together with other foundation members, we will support the acceleration of science and research that can make a dramatic impact on the world.”
“We are excited to have AMD join the PyTorch Foundation and bring its extensive expertise in HPC, AI and ML to our members,” stated Santosh Janardhan, VP, Infrastructure at Meta. “AMD has continued to support PyTorch with its integration on ROCm open software platform and has worked extensively with the open-source community and other foundation members to advance performance of ML and AI workloads. The collaborative support offered by AMD continues our engagement across broad industry initiatives for global impact.”
AMD, Advancing AI and ML
AMD is uniquely positioned with its broad product and software program portfolio to assist clients and companions develop and deploy functions with a number of types of AI from the cloud and enterprise, to the sting and endpoints. With a various set of {hardware} together with AMD Instinct and Alveo accelerators, adaptive SoCs and CPUs, AMD can help all kinds of pervasive AI and ML fashions, from small edge factors to giant scale out coaching and inference workloads.
AMD additionally works extensively with the AI open group to advertise and lengthen machine and deep studying capabilities and optimizations. Vitis AI supplies a complete AI inference growth platform for AMD adaptive SoCs and Alveo knowledge heart accelerators. Vitis AI plugs into widespread software program developer instruments and makes use of a wealthy set of optimized open-source libraries to empower software program builders with machine studying acceleration as a part of their software program code.
The ROCm™ open software program platform is continually evolving to fulfill the wants of the AI/ML and HPC group. With the most recent launch of ROCm 5.0, builders have entry to turn-key AI framework containers on AMD Infinity Hub, superior instruments, streamlined set up, and might anticipate to expertise lowered kernel launch instances and quicker utility efficiency. As nicely, with the most recent PyTorch 1.12 launch, AMD ROCm™ help has moved from beta to steady. You can learn extra about that right here.
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About AMD
For greater than 50 years AMD has pushed innovation in high-performance computing, graphics and visualization applied sciences. Billions of individuals, main Fortune 500 companies and cutting-edge scientific analysis establishments around the globe depend on AMD expertise each day to enhance how they reside, work and play. AMD staff are centered on constructing management high-performance and adaptive merchandise that push the boundaries of what’s doable. For extra details about how AMD is enabling at this time and galvanizing tomorrow, go to the AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) web site, weblog, LinkedIn and Twitter pages.
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