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Getting Started with AMD GPU Compute on Rackspace OpenStack Flex

Your instance is up, your AMD GPU is attached, and you're staring at a terminal with no nvidia-smi to lean on. Welcome to the other side.

If you've read our NVIDIA getting started guide, you know the drill: provision an instance, install drivers, verify the hardware, start computing. The AMD path follows the same logic but with different tooling. Instead of CUDA, you're working with ROCm. Instead of nvidia-smi, you've got rocm-smi. Instead of a driver ecosystem that's had two decades of cloud deployment polish, you've got one that's been moving fast and getting dramatically better, but still has some rough edges worth knowing about.

Getting Started with GPU Compute on Rackspace OpenStack Flex

Your instance is up, your GPU is attached, and now you're staring at a blank terminal wondering what's next. Time to get Clouding.

Rackspace OpenStack Flex delivers GPU-enabled compute instances with real hardware acceleration, not the "GPU-adjacent" experience you might get elsewhere. Whether you're running inference workloads, training models, or just need raw parallel compute power, getting your instance properly configured is the difference between frustration and actual productivity.