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Release notes

We have attempted to document known bugs and limitations - in particular the HIP Kernel Language document uses the phrase "Under Development", and the HIP Runtime API bug list lists known bugs. Some of the key items we are working on:

  • Tuning built-in functions, including shfl.
  • Performance optimization.

Stay tuned - the work for many of these features is already in-flight.

=================================================================================================== Release:0.86.00 Date: 2016.06.06

  • Add clang-hipify : clang-based hipify tool. Improved parsing of source code, and automates creation of hipLaunchParm variable.
  • Implement memory register / unregister commands (hipHostRegister, hipHostUnregister)
  • Add cross-linking support between G++ and HCC, in particular for interfaces that use standard C++ libraries (ie std::vectors, std::strings). HIPCC now uses libstdc++ by default on the HCC compilation path.
  • More samples including gpu-burn, SHOC, nbody, rtm. See HIP-Examples

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Revision History:

=================================================================================================== Release:0.84.01 Date: 2016.04.25

  • Refactor HIP make and install system:
    • Move to CMake. Refer to the installation section in README.md for details.
    • Split source into multiple modular .cpp and .h files.
    • Create static library and link.
    • Set HIP_PATH to install.
  • Make hipDevice and hipStream thread-safe.
    • Prefered hipStream usage is still to create new streams for each new thread, but it works even if you don;t.
  • Improve automated platform detection: If AMD GPU is installed and detected by driver, default HIP_PLATFORM to hcc.
  • HIP_TRACE_API now prints arguments to the HIP function (in addition to name of function).
  • Deprecate hipDeviceGetProp (Replace with hipGetDeviceProp)
  • Deprecate hipMallocHost (Replace with hipHostMalloc)
  • Deprecate hipFreeHost (Replace with hipHostFree)
  • The mixbench benchmark tool for measuring operational intensity now has a HIP target, in addition to CUDA and OpenCL. Let the comparisons begin. :)
    See here for more : https://github.com/ekondis/mixbench.

=================================================================================================== Release:0.82.00 Date: 2016.03.07

  • Bump minimum required HCC workweek to 16074.
  • Bump minimum required ROCK-Kernel-Driver and ROCR-Runtime to Developer Preview 2.
  • Enable multi-GPU support.
    • Use hipSetDevice to select a device for subsequent kernel calls and memory allocations.
    • CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES / HIP_VISIBLE_DEVICE environment variable selects devices visible to the runtime.
  • Support hipStreams – send sequences of copy and kernel commands to a device.
    • Asynchronous copies supported.
  • Optimize memory copy operations.
  • Support hipPointerGetAttribute – can determine if a pointer is host or device.
  • Enable atomics to local memory.
  • Support for LC Direct-To-ISA path.
  • Improved free memory reporting.
    • hipMemGetInfo (report full memory used in current process).
    • hipDeviceReset (deletes all memory allocated by current process).

=================================================================================================== Release:0.80.01 Date: 2016.02.18

  • Improve reporting and support for device-side math functions.
  • Update Runtime Documentation.
  • Improve implementations of cross-lane operations (_ballot, _any, _all).
  • Provide shuffle intrinsics (performance optimization in-progress).
  • Support hipDeviceAttribute for querying "one-shot" device attributes, as an alternative to hipGetDeviceProperties.

=================================================================================================== Release:0.80.00 Date: 2016.01.25

Initial release with GPUOpen Launch.