1.4. Installation steps


The following are the steps to use the library

  • ROCM 1.0 Kernel, Driver and Compiler Installation (if not done until now)
  • Library installation.

1.4.1. ROCM 1.0 Installation

To Know more about ROCM refer https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCm/blob/master/README.md

a. Installing Debian ROCM repositories

Before proceeding, make sure to completely uninstall any pre-release ROCm packages.

Refer https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCm#removing-pre-release-packages for instructions to remove pre-release ROCM packages.

Steps to install rocm package are,

wget -qO - http://packages.amd.com/rocm/apt/debian/rocm.gpg.key | sudo apt-key add -

sudo sh -c 'echo deb [arch=amd64] http://packages.amd.com/rocm/apt/debian/ trusty main > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/rocm.list'

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install rocm

and Reboot the system

b. Verifying the Installation

Once Reboot, to verify that the ROCm stack completed successfully you can execute HSA vector_copy sample application:

  • cd /opt/rocm/hsa/sample
  • make
  • ./vector_copy

1.4.2. Library Installation

  1. Install using Prebuilt debian

    wget https://bitbucket.org/multicoreware/hcblas/downloads/hcblas-master-db04c54-Linux.deb

    sudo dpkg -i hcblas-master-db04c54-Linux.deb

  2. Build debian from source

    git clone https://bitbucket.org/multicoreware/hcblas.git && cd hcblas

    chmod +x build.sh && ./build.sh

    build.sh execution builds the library and generates a debian under build directory.

  3. Install CPU based CBLAS library

    sudo apt-get install libblas-dev