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titleWork in Progress for Phase-2 Documentation

The content of this section is currently being updated to include material relevant for Phase-2 of Setonix and the use of GPUs.
On the other hand, all the existing material related to Phase-1 and the use of CPU compute nodes can be considered safe, valid and up-to-date.

HIP: Heterogeneous Interface for Portability is developed by AMD to program on AMD GPUs. 

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The hipify perl script acts directly on the CUDA source code using a series of simple string replacements. Ex., (sed e ’s/cuda/hip/g’)

To convert the a CUDA file (foo.cu , for example) to HIP format, enter the following after loading hip/4.3.0

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a ROCm module:

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titleTerminal N. Loading ROCm module and using the hipify-perl tool for translating the code from CUDA to HIP
$ module load rocm/
version
<version>
$ hipify-perl foo.cu > new_foo.cpp



You can then compile the HIP ready . cpp file for the ROCm environment using the HIP/ Clang compiler provided in the ROCm installation:

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titleTerminal N. Compiling the code with hipcc
$ 
module load rocm/version $ hipcc new_foo.cpp
hipcc new_foo.cpp



There are several other utility scripts and options available to support the porting of codes that you can find in the rocm installation. These include:

  • hipify-clang
  • hipify-perl
  • hipexamine.sh
  • hipexamine-perl.sh
  • hipconvertinplace.sh
  • hipconvertinplace-perl.sh



For example, hipify-perl -inplace option saves the HIP version of the code in the same file. The original CUDA code is saved in the backup file .prehip:

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$ hipify-perl -inplace <filename>


Or hipexamine-perl.sh scans a file/directory to determine which file/files contain CUDA code and how much of that code can be automatically hipified.

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$ hipexamine-perl.sh <filename/directory>

Or hipconvertinplace-perl.sh converts all the related files that are located inside the directory

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$ hipconvertinplace-perl.sh <directory>

for more information see HIP programming guide, ROCm-Developer-Tools, HIPIFY/README