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Introduction
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Overview
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rocBLAS is a `BLAS <http://www.netlib.org/blas/>`__ implementation on top of AMD’s Radeon Open Compute `ROCm <https://rocm.github.io/install.html>`__ runtime and toolchains.
rocBLAS is implemented in the `HIP <https://github.com/ROCm-Developer-Tools/HIP>`__ programming language and optimized for AMD’s latest
discrete GPUs.

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Acronym  Expansion
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**BLAS**    **B**\ asic **L**\ inear **A**\ lgebra **S**\ ubprograms
**ROCm**    **R**\ adeon **O**\ pen **C**\ ompute Platfor\ **m**
**HIP**     **H**\ eterogeneous-Compute **I**\ nterface for **P**\ ortability
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References for BLAS
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#. C. L. Lawson, R. J. Hanson, D. Kincaid, and F. T. Krogh, Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms for FORTRAN usage, ACM Trans. Math. Soft., 5 (1979), pp. 308—323.

#. J. J. Dongarra, J. Du Croz, S. Hammarling, and R. J. Hanson, An extended set of FORTRAN Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms, ACM Trans. Math. Soft., 14 (1988), pp. 1—17.

#. J. J. Dongarra, J. Du Croz, S. Hammarling, and R. J. Hanson, Algorithm 656: An extended set of FORTRAN Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms, ACM Trans. Math. Soft., 14 (1988), pp. 18—32.

#. `<http://www.netlib.org/blas/>`_