Potential to expand support for HIP Apps?

[parallelo]

Hi,

Just curious how challenging it would be to add support for HIP applications. Any thoughts?

Thanks,

Jeff

[jlgreathouse]

Sorry for the delay in getting to this.

From a design perspective, I don't think this would be too hard to support. It would mostly involve another wrapper library, like the OpenCL wrapper contained in ./src/cl_wrapper/ . However, I expect that actually implementing the checkers will lead to a number of roadblocks that would add up to a reasonable amount of work.

For instance, most of our OpenCL overflow checkers are configured to be be able to run on the GPU immediately after the user kernel runs. We take advantage of the fact that the user kernel will require a work queue and working OpenCL device, so we don't allocate our own. As such, we would need to port all of this to work in a HIP/HCC environment as well.

In any case, I believe this is a good feature request but I can't give an estimate as to when/if it would be done.