HIP is AMD's open-source re-implementation of CUDA libraries.

viewtransform · on June 2, 2023

HIP is AMD's contribution to the open source community to overcome Nvidia's CUDA software moat

You write in HIP C++ language and run them on either NVIDIA or AMD platforms. This way you get cross-platform code and are not stuck with Nvidia.

Use HIPify tool to automatically convert existing sources from CUDA to HIP.

It's been around for many years - but the fact that so many people still don't know about it - speaks for the sad state of AMD communication.

my123 · on June 2, 2023

HIP is a pathetic CUDA API clone. Gratuitous renames don't do it any good and are more representative of NIH rather than anything else (sadly).

They should have shipped a proper header set instead of hipify.