AMD's $1.1M Hackathon: Team Boosts MI355X Performance by 2x via Kernel Optimization
marksaroufim · x · 2026-07-30
GPUMODE has launched a $1.1 million AMD Kernel hackathon. SemiAnalysis highlighted the event, noting that the GPUMODE Readonflow team successfully improved end-to-end MI355X performance by over 2x through kernel optimizations.
More from Infra
- Qualcomm Seen as the 'Problem Child' of the Current AI Chip Rally — firstadopter · 2026-07-30
- Open-Source LLM Runs Locally on an $8 Microcontroller at 9.5 Tokens/Sec — Saboo_Shubham_ · 2026-07-30
- Estimating K3 Post-Training Costs: ~$4M for the Hero Run — nrehiew_ · 2026-07-30
- Samsung Earnings Call Reveals 2nm Projects from Major CSP and HPC Customers — zephyr_z9 · 2026-07-30
- Samsung Q2 Call: Agentic AI Triggers Memory Shortage and Compute Spillover — zephyr_z9 · 2026-07-30
- TensorSharp Adds Multi-GPU Tensor Parallelism, Boosting Local GGUF Inference Speeds — fuzhongkai · 2026-07-30