Heterogeneous Computing Special Interest Group
Mission
To encourage the packaging and accessibility of heterogeneous computing projects in Fedora and EPEL. This includes machine learning, OpenCL, and scientific computing.
Members/Packagers/Reviewers
- Jeremy Newton (ROCm related)
- Felix Schwarz (currently busy with certbot, borgbackup, WeasyPrint)
- Benson Muite
- Morgan Hough (Intel related while testing SODECL on Intel NUCs)
- Tom Rix (CUDA, OpenCL, Vulkan Compute, Misc)
Please add your name above if you want to help.
Tasks
- Package and make HC related projects more accessible to users (such as OpenCL, AMD's ROCm HIP, Intel oneAPI, SYCL, Vulkan, OpenGL, etc.)
- Document installation, packages, and general use cases
- Translation of wiki pages and documentation (if applicable)
AMD's ROCm (OpenCL/HIP)
Package status
Below is a list of ROCm packages with their status. If something isn't packaged in Fedora or EPEL, feel free to take it!
This reference might be helpful for those attempting to package: https://gist.github.com/cgmb/edb7b790ab55681fb2ba5385ee02489b
HW Support
The ROCm packages in Fedora are built for all 64bit little endian systems (x86_64, arm64, ppc64le), but official support is for x86_64.
Most products starting with vega 10 (Radeon RX Vega) should work without configuration, but any pre-vega HW, such as the RX 400's or 500's, will require setting (note this is no longer required for rocm-opencl-5.2.1-2 or later):
export ROC_ENABLE_PRE_VEGA=1
Installation
Setup
To enable access to GPU resources for non-root users, the users must be added to the video
or render
group. The AMD ROCm Installation Guide (v5.2) and FAQs recommend the video
group for all ROCm-supported operating systems.
To add the current user to the video
group:
sudo usermod -a -G video $LOGNAME
To check for ROCm support of the running HW, you can install and run rocminfo
:
sudo dnf install rocminfo rocminfo
OpenCL
ROCm OpenCL can be installed with (Fedora 36, EPEL8, and EPEL9 are currently in testing):
sudo dnf install rocm-opencl
As well, rocm-clinfo
or clinfo
can be installed to verify it is working, e.g.:
sudo dnf install rocm-clinfo rocm-clinfo
HIP
TODO
Some experimental builds exist here (use at your own risk): https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/mystro256/rocm-hip/
Intel
TODO: incomplete, take me!