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 # hipFile / rocFile
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+> [!CAUTION] 
+> This release is an *early-access* software technology preview. Running production workloads is *not* recommended.
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 AMD Infinity Storage library that supports IO directly to the GPU
 
 ## Building hipFile and rocFile