Using CLOC to compile OpenCL kernels to ROCm platform with Fiji GPU

[rjfnobre]

Is is possible to use CLOC to compile OpenCL kernels that can be used with either a ROCm platform (with NVIDIA Fiji GPU) or with the older AMD Catalyst drivers on Linux?

Before knowing about CLOC, I was thinking to to compile OpenCL kernels with Clang/LLVM and the libclc (http://libclc.llvm.org/) library.
But I kind of gave up on that idea after multiple trials, as I could not find a way to use the GCN assembly generated from the Clang/LLVM AMD GCN code generator to assemble a binary that could be loaded by the OpenCL function clCreateProgramWithBinary.

Thanks in advance!

[gstoner]

In 2 day you can just program in OpenCL with ROCm 1.4 Greg On Dec 14, 2016, at 10:33 AM, rjfnobre <notifications@github.com<mailto:notifications@github.com>> wrote: Is is possible to use CLOC to compile OpenCL kernels that can be used with either a ROCm platform (with NVIDIA Fiji GPU) or with the older AMD Catalyst drivers on Linux? Before knowing about CLOC, I was thinking to to compile OpenCL kernels with Clang/LLVM and the libclc (http://libclc.llvm.org/) library. But I kind of gave up on that idea after multiple trials, as I could not find a way to use the GCN assembly generated from the Clang/LLVM AMD GCN code generator to assemble a binary that could be loaded by the OpenCL function clCreateProgramWithBinary. Thanks in advance! — You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub<#21>, or mute the thread<https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AD8Dua0OYtDxFqkCtTZW3i4T1eTSHQVHks5rIBpcgaJpZM4LNIeS>.

[rjfnobre]

Thats very good!

And what about using the GCN assembly generated from OpenCL kernels with ROCm?

I'm applying specialized optimization strategies to LLVM IR representing OpenCL kernels, and I would like to use the output of those transformations with ROCm (so that I can generate the binaries that will execute on the GPU).

Do you have an idea on how to do this?

[gstoner]

We will support the same compiler backend we use in HCC AMDGPU compiler, so we will have support for Assembly support. This will be complete CLANG/LLVM code path that emits GCN ISA binary. On Dec 15, 2016, at 9:27 AM, rjfnobre <notifications@github.com<mailto:notifications@github.com>> wrote: Thats very good! And what about using the GCN assembly generated from OpenCL kernels with ROCm? I'm applying specialized optimization strategies to LLVM IR representing OpenCL kernels, and I would like to use the output of those transformations with ROCm (so that I can generate the binaries that will execute on the GPU). Do you have an idea on how to do this? — You are receiving this because you commented. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub<#21 (comment)>, or mute the thread<https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AD8DuZfsT1saqIGjBU1MRjR2hawNN8saks5rIVxlgaJpZM4LNIeS>.

[rjfnobre]

Because I'm correctly doing experiments in the context of university research using LLVM and I would like to have AMD GPUs represented in the paper, other than only NVIDIA GPUs.

[rjfnobre]

Can you take a look at this?
ROCm/ROCm#61

Thanks for your time.