hip-sys

Rust bindings for HIP

Dependencies

• A ROCm platform ie a compatible AMD GPU
  • hipblas can be accessed with the blas feature
  • Specify the path to hip with HIP_PATH. If not provided, /opt/rocm/hip is assumed
  • Specify the path to hipblas with HIP_BLAS_PATH. If not provided, /opt/rocm/hipblas is assumed
  • Native bindings can be generated with the bindgen feature
  • Will compile without an AMD GPU, but device functions will fail
  • Currently CUDA platform support is not available (see cuda-sys https://github.com/rust-cuda/cuda-sys)

Install ROCm

• Ubuntu: See https://rocmdocs.amd.com/en/latest/deploy/linux/quick_start.html
  • Works with the hcc backend sudo apt install hip-hcc (from ROCm package registry)
  • You may need to install rocsolver as well sudo apt install rocsolver
• Arch: See https://github.com/arch4edu/arch4edu
  • sudo pacman -S rocm-hip-runtime

If you have any problems please post an issue.

Tests

Run the tests with: cargo test

Docs

Open the documentation with: cargo doc --open

Acknowledgement

This repo is derived from one created here; permission has been gained to publish this work with local modifications (see issue #1).