Port to windows

[boxerab]

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[VincentSC]

Nope

[bensander]

Correct. Popular request but not currently supported. From: VincentSC <[email protected]> Reply-To: ROCm-Developer-Tools/HIP <[email protected]> Date: Friday, June 9, 2017 at 10:06 AM To: ROCm-Developer-Tools/HIP <[email protected]> Cc: Subscribed <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [ROCm-Developer-Tools/HIP] Does this run on windows ? (#84) Nope — You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub<#84 (comment)>, or mute the thread<https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ACYSAsTrYQZbLvpINfj5CfM7ZwPepbyNks5sCV9wgaJpZM4N1dkH>.

[boxerab]

Is there a plan to port to windows? I have an opencl project that I want to run on nvidia hardware in addition to Radeon, but don't trust the nvidia opencl drivers :) So, would like to port to HIP. But, I really really need to be able to run this on windows.

[boxerab]

Unless I can cross-compile to windows

[boxerab]

Also, given that nvidia no longer supports profiling opencl kernels :)

[bensander]

Right – we are looking at this but have not announced a committed plan. From: Aaron Boxer <[email protected]> Reply-To: ROCm-Developer-Tools/HIP <[email protected]> Date: Friday, June 9, 2017 at 10:11 AM To: ROCm-Developer-Tools/HIP <[email protected]> Cc: "Sander, Ben" <[email protected]>, Comment <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [ROCm-Developer-Tools/HIP] Does this run on windows ? (#84) Also, given that nvidia no longer supports profiling opencl kernels :) — You are receiving this because you commented. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub<#84 (comment)>, or mute the thread<https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ACYSAtLBlVQMzU2NbQBxW9FKOCIaqOwqks5sCWCYgaJpZM4N1dkH>.

[boxerab]

Thanks, Ben. It would clearly help a lot with HIP adoption, but of course you guys have a lot on your plates at the moment.

[boxerab]

Just want to re-iterate : there are a lot of CUDA developers using Windows! So, porting to windows will really speed up adoption, and create a large pool of HIP developers.

[dtmoodie]

I'll add that I will port my entire computer vision platform to hip if Windows support is added.

[boxerab]

By the way, I have some time to work on this port to windows.

[emankov]

hipfy-clang tool can be built on Windows by MS VS 15, 17, so hipification (porting CUDA->HIP) might be performed on Windows, but not the running of the hipified code.

[dtmoodie]

What would be required to run it? I've heard mention that it is an OS level issue. Which strikes me as odd if we can launch opencl and cuda kernels with current facilities on Windows.

[bensander]

The HIP runtime uses the HSA Runtime and HCC runtime for event and code management, and HCC uses the HSA Runtime to communicate with the kernel driver. To run HIP applications on Windows, we need a HSA runtime implementation for Windows. Also we need HCC compiler to run on windows. This is fair amount of work, but we hear the requests and have some internal efforts in this direction.

[boxerab]

Thanks, Ben. As I said earlier, we realize you guys are busy! Very glad to see the company realizing how important software ecosystem is, especially open one.

In the meantime, I guess a simple interim solution would be to allow HIP code on windows to run on Green team only i.e. disable Radeon backend and only use NVCC etc. for windows. Would that work ?
Not ideal, of course.

[boxerab]

Personally, I already have an OpenCL solution for AMD cards on windows, so I guess the simplest
approach for supporting nVidia on windows is to use a wrapper that redirects hip calls to cuda calls, and re-write some of the host code.

[boxerab]

Hi Ben,
Does closing this issue mean that there is no windows port planned ?

Kind Regards,
Aaron

[bensander]

Hi Aaron - we are aware of the interest in this from several people and we will have it eventually. We will share more concrete roadmap when possible.

[boxerab]

Thanks.

[VincentSC]

Is there an update on this?

[oscarbg]

Hope after 1.9 release this month, ROCM 2.0 beta at SC18 comes with some Windows HIP support (rocblas,fft,prim,solver libs)

[ghostplant]

@bensander To begin with, can we just make hcc work as a cross compiler on Windows? I think it is based on clang, and doesn't even require HSA runtime (maybe just some HSA headers would be OK). I need something like a HSACO cross-compiler that is able to build them on Windows.

If not, how about open-source LLVM-9, since it can generate different target codes and it also has Windows release version.

[bensander]

Upstream clang has support for hip language - we polishing this solution and release soon. But remind me which problem you are trying to solve ?

[ghostplant]

@bensander I want an HIP cross-compiler compiled at Windows platform, thus allowing Windows supporting partial HIP stack.

[bensander]

Us too ! I anticipate you will see this from AMD in the next few months. Both compiler and runtime.

[ghostplant]

@bensander Great news! Eager to see this awesome progress soon.

[JessubKim]

Just found out why HCC compiler support on windows could be so useful. This would enable compilation of SyCL code in Nvidia GPU's in Windows using HipSyCL which uses AMD HIP to map SyCL codes.
Very much looking forward to this being released

[Degerz]

@bensander Have both the compiler and the runtime released yet and if not is it possible to get an ETA for them ?

[stefan-gavranovic]

@bensander Any update on this would be much appreciated.
I see that hipify-clang is working on Windows, but what good is that if HCC is not supported?

[Hendiadyoin1]

So you are able to install all libraries on wsl2 see the wsl repo
though mainly supporting cuda
is there any move from the amd guys to enable it via the wsl

another thread

[IIIBlueberry]

@bensander Any update on this would be much appreciated.
I see that hipify-clang is working on Windows, but what good is that if HCC is not supported?

Someone found out amd has been shipping "amdhip.dll" on their driver, and able to run some HIP apps(bandwith test, device query ) on windows
AdaptiveCpp/AdaptiveCpp#78 (comment)

[ghostplant]

@IIIBlueberry Currently https://github.com/microsoft/antares is able to enable and evaluate ROCm Kernel execution workload on Windows 10. The evaluation branch is activated by BACKEND=c-rocm_win64, as long as the driver file "amdhip.dll" works on your system.

[IIIBlueberry]

@ghostplant wow this great, will this mean we can have ROCm on windows soon?

[ghostplant]

You can just use it at the level of driver API calls, which is enough to accelerate what Linux ROCm can accelerate.
But AMD officially doesn't support much more other than that.

[xuhuisheng]

@ghostplant
Thank you for showing that microsoft had plan to support ROCm on windows.
I had a question how can I get C:\Windows\System32\amdhip64.dll, is there any redistribution packages? Or should I compile hip on windows by myself?
Is there any guides for this?

[ghostplant]

C:\Windows\System32\amdhip64.dll is provided by latest AMDGPU driver that can work on Windows.

[Sephirothbahamut]

Are there any news on the topic? Having access to HIP on Windows would still be huge...

[EzeAGB]

Please add support for Windows.

[Sp3ci3s8472]

With stable diffusion getting all the hype at the moment I would assume this issue would get more focus, or that WSL in combination with Docker would allow users to use ROCm on Windows. Sadly I have to use a Nvidia gpu with not a lot of VRAM while my 6900 XT sits idle.

[Enferlain]

Same. I've been following these topics and hoping for an update. I love my 6800xt but I can't do anything on windows