Canonical Prepares Native AMD ROCm Support for Ubuntu

Canonical Prepares Native AMD ROCm Support for Ubuntu

Canonical is pleased to announce an expanded collaboration with AMD to package and maintain AMD ROCm software directly in Ubuntu. AMD ROCm is an open software ecosystem to enable hardware-accelerated AI/ML and HPC workloads on AMD Instinct and AMD Radeon GPUs, simplifying the deployment of AI infrastructure with long term support from Canonical. Canonical has formed a dedicated team of engineers to package the AMD ROCm software libraries to str…

Ubuntu Will Soon Make AMD GPUs Much Easier to Use for AI Workloads

Canonical teams up with AMD to package ROCm directly in Ubuntu.

Ubuntu 26.04 to Include AMD ROCm in Official Repos (Like CUDA) - OMG! Ubuntu

Canonical is adding AMD’s ROCm to the Ubuntu 26.04 LTS repos, making it faster for developers to install GPU-accelerated AI and HPC libraries for AMD Instinct and Radeon GPUs. The news mirrors September’s NVIDIA CUDA announcement, when Canonical said it would package CUDA tools in the official Ubuntu repositories, negating multi-step installation hurdles for developers to get up and running with GPU-accelerated AI/ML tasks on Ubuntu. Now, AMD al…

Canonical to Package and Distribute AMD ROCm within Ubuntu’s Repositories

Ubuntu maker Canonical will package and distribute the AMD ROCm software stack within Ubuntu’s repositories to enable hardware-accelerated AI/ML and HPC workloads. The post Canonical to Package and Distribute AMD ROCm within Ubuntu’s Repositories appeared first on 9to5Linux - do not reproduce this article without permission. This RSS feed is intended for readers, not scrapers.