From 20f6c08d6fecc5d5e78d1c6e55f3f682e7c948fe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Aristotle <89488299+aris134@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2026 12:13:29 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Update README.rst Define the GPU acronym in the README --- README.rst | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst index 66d1b0b3e..9d0bc0e60 100644 --- a/README.rst +++ b/README.rst @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ Transformer Engine On ROCm and AMDGPU ************************************* -This repository enables Transformer Engine (TE) on ROCm as a library to accelerate Transformer models on AMD GPUs, including using 8-bit floating point (FP8) precision on MI300 GPUs, to provide better performance with lower memory utilization in both training and inference. +This repository enables Transformer Engine (TE) on ROCm as a library to accelerate Transformer models on AMD graphics processing units (GPUs), including using 8-bit floating point (FP8) precision on MI300 GPUs, to provide better performance with lower memory utilization in both training and inference. One of the missions is to provide an alternative to accelerate Transformer models that were previously run on NVIDIA GPUs like Hopper with best efforts to make the migration frictionless. Moreover, we add optimizations specific to AMD GPUs to get the best performance benefits out of AMD GPUs.