# TheRock

The HIP Environment and ROCm Kit - A lightweight open source build system for HIP and ROCm

Repository: https://github.com/ROCm/TheRock
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/therock
Language: Python
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2026-09-03T01:43:18+00:00
Link (homepage): https://rocm.docs.amd.com
Link (site_page): https://rocm.docs.amd.com/en/latest/about/release-notes.html
Link (site_page): https://rocm.docs.amd.com/en/latest/about/transition-guide-TheRock.html
Link (site_page): https://rocm.docs.amd.com/en/latest/about/what-is-rocm.html
Link (site_page): https://rocm.docs.amd.com/en/latest/install/rocm.html

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 89/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 100, release rhythm 88, longevity 65
- inputs: {"age_days": 915, "days_push": 0, "days_rel": 2, "gap_med": 46.0, "n_releases_24m": 7}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1270, forks 317 (observed 2026-09-03T02:15:07.157533+00:00)

## What it is
TheRock is AMD's open-source build and release system for the ROCm software stack, replacing the legacy monolithic ROCm release process with a modular workflow. It produces the ROCm Core SDK — drivers, HIP runtime, compilers, math libraries, and profiling tools — for GPU computing on AMD Instinct, Radeon, and Ryzen AI hardware.

## Use cases
- build the AMD ROCm GPU software stack from source
- install ROCm for PyTorch or JAX on AMD GPUs
- set up HIP GPU programming on Linux or Windows
- get nightly ROCm builds for unsupported or community-enabled GPUs
- deploy AI inference workloads on AMD Instinct accelerators
- package ROCm components as tarballs or DEB/RPM packages
- migrate from the legacy ROCm release stream to the new build system

## When to choose
- you develop on or for AMD GPUs and need the ROCm SDK, HIP runtime, or math libraries
- you want to build ROCm components modularly or contribute to its build system
- your GPU is only supported via TheRock nightly/community builds
- you need reproducible, per-component ROCm distributions for HPC or ML environments

## When to avoid
- you develop exclusively for NVIDIA GPUs (use CUDA instead)
- you need the legacy monolithic ROCm release process, which is deprecated
- you want a turnkey ML framework without touching GPU toolchains
- your hardware or OS is outside AMD's supported compatibility matrix and no community build exists

## Facets
- artifact type: framework
- maturity: active
- function: build-tool, compiler, gpu-computing, developer-tools, deployment
- domain: gpu-computing, machine-learning, deep-learning, developer-tools, compilers
- platform: windows, python, cpp
- tags: amd, rocm, hip, therock, build-and-release-system, open-source-gpu-stack, pytorch, hpc, linux, gpu

## Member repositories
- ROCm/TheRock (main) score 89
- ROCm/legacy-rocm-build (mirror) score 97

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-09-03T02:15:07.157533+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:42:01.144466+00:00, confidence not recorded.
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  - site_page: https://rocm.docs.amd.com/en/latest/about/release-notes.html (fetched 2026-08-29T08:38:09.308142+00:00, sha 7f453fd62990)
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  - site_page: https://rocm.docs.amd.com/en/latest/about/what-is-rocm.html (fetched 2026-08-29T08:38:09.314321+00:00, sha afd9296a998e)
  - site_page: https://rocm.docs.amd.com/en/latest/install/rocm.html (fetched 2026-08-29T08:38:09.316155+00:00, sha 519287692529)
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  - site_page: https://rocm.docs.amd.com/en/latest/install/redirect/_install.html (fetched 2026-08-29T08:38:09.321220+00:00, sha 4135c1d8f34a)
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- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.