AMD has the hardware but the support for HPC is non-existent outside of the joke that is bliss and AOCL.
I really wish for more competitors to enter the market in HPC, but AMD has a shitload of work to do.
AMD has the hardware but the support for HPC is non-existent outside of the joke that is bliss and AOCL.
I really wish for more competitors to enter the market in HPC, but AMD has a shitload of work to do.
You are probably two years behind the state of the art. The world's largest supercomputer, OLCF's Frontier, runs AMD CPUs and GPUs. It's emphatically using ROCm, not just BLIS and AOCL. See for example: https://docs.olcf.ornl.gov/systems/frontier_user_guide.html
That's hardly non-existent support for HPC.
Also, I choose to pay the ~$120 Windows tax once (per box), everything works very well, and I don't have the driver issues that some fraction of other users seem to have with Linux and Nvidia cards. Seems like a good use of my time.