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AMD MI355X performance boosted by community hackathon, rivals B200 on Kimi models · 6 sources tracked

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AMD, in collaboration with GPU_MODE, has launched a $1.1 million kernel hackathon that has significantly improved the performance of its MI355X graphics card. The Readonflow Team's optimizations, focusing on MoE kernels and other core components, have resulted in up to a 4x performance increase and have been upstreamed to AMD's AITER kernel library and the ATOM inference engine. This initiative aims to bring AMD's vLLM performance closer to parity with CUDA vLLM and enhance community experience with the ROCm stack. AI

IMPACT Enhances AMD's competitiveness in AI hardware by improving inference performance and fostering community development on its ROCm stack.

RANK_REASON Community-driven performance optimization and upstreaming of kernels for AMD hardware.

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AMD MI355X performance boosted by community hackathon, rivals B200 on Kimi models · 6 sources tracked

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COVERAGE [6]

  1. X — SemiAnalysis TIER_1 English(EN) · SemiAnalysis_ ·

    @GPU_MODE Shoutout to @marksaroufim &amp; @roaner  for helping organize the community GPUMODE hackathon such that the community can have access to the resources

    @GPU_MODE Shoutout to @marksaroufim &amp; @roaner  for helping organize the community GPUMODE hackathon such that the community can have access to the resources to learn how to optimize AMD perf. 6\6🧵

  2. X — SemiAnalysis TIER_1 English(EN) · SemiAnalysis_ ·

    @GPU_MODE @AIatAMD @marksaroufim @AnushElangovan Huge shoutout to @roaner and his team for leading the organization of this competition, which got many communit

    @GPU_MODE @AIatAMD @marksaroufim @AnushElangovan Huge shoutout to @roaner and his team for leading the organization of this competition, which got many community members involved!!

  3. X — SemiAnalysis TIER_1 English(EN) · SemiAnalysis_ ·

    @GPU_MODE @AIatAMD Great work by @marksaroufim and @AnushElangovan for brainstorming and launching this hackathon, which helps the community gain more experienc

    @GPU_MODE @AIatAMD Great work by @marksaroufim and @AnushElangovan for brainstorming and launching this hackathon, which helps the community gain more experience in optimizing inference performance on the ROCm stack. 4/4🧵

  4. Mastodon — sigmoid.social TIER_1 Deutsch(DE) · [email protected] ·

    RT @HyperTechInvest: AMD has released a state-of-the-art, fully open model exclusively on MI300X and MI325X GPUs with ROCm Instella-MoE t

    RT @HyperTechInvest: AMD hat ein hochmodernes, vollständig offenes Modell veröffentlicht, das ausschließlich auf MI300X- und MI325X-GPUs mit ROCm Instella-MoE trainiert wurde. Es handelt sich um ein Mixture-of-Experts-Modell mit 16 Milliarden Parametern, das pro Token nur 2,8 Mil…

  5. Mastodon — sigmoid.social TIER_1 Deutsch(DE) · [email protected] ·

    RT @ns123abc: 🚨 NVIDIA CEO 'redpilled' by Anthropic's 'Mythos' interviewer at the White House: 'We know Mythos can break into a bank... are

    RT @ns123abc: 🚨NVIDIA-CEO hat das Weiße Haus durch das Mythos-Interviewer von Anthropic „redpilled“: „Wir wissen, dass Mythos in eine Bank einbrechen kann… sind wir bereit, es jedem zur Verfügung zu stellen?“ Jensen: „Es sollte absolut jedem zur Verfügung stehen.“ Interviewer: AL…

  6. Mastodon — sigmoid.social TIER_1 Deutsch(DE) · [email protected] ·

    RT @Italianclownz: I am currently working on ROCmFPX and hope this helps everyone when I provide the updates. Finished this at the airport terminal

    RT @Italianclownz: Ich arbeite gerade an ROCmFPX und hoffe, dass dies allen hilft, wenn ich die Updates bereitstelle. Habe das im Terminal am Flughafen fertiggestellt. Was seltsam ist, ist, dass diese ROCmFP2-Quantisierung etwas Magisches vollbringt. Bin gespannt auf Feedback, so…

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