Re: 5.7 Release Plan / Timeline?
Thanks Cory, the updated chart is really helpful.
On 2023-12-12 07:18, Cordell Bloor wrote:
> I've attached an updated chart. I marked some optional dependencies with
> a dotted line, but I also omitted some optional dependencies to simplify
> the diagram. Libraries that have been packaged are marked with a check,
> and I've numbered the next four libraries that I suggest we package.
I've added the not-yet-listed packages and link the to the graph on the
wiki [3].
One thing that we shouldn't underestimate is that some upgrades to 5.7
might be complicated. For example, rocsparse itself was easy, but
documentation build requires new Sphinx packages.
> I don't think we're going to see GPU-accelerated PyTorch in Ubuntu
> 24.04, but I've made my peace with that.
Well, can't hurt trying -- we might still get lucky.
> P.S. There is now a hipblas backend to llama.cpp [1]. That's the second
> application I know of that the Debian ROCm packages are useful for (the
> first being Blender). We should probably package the Tensile
> benchmarking tool so that it's easier to tune GEMMs on Debian. The
> performance of rocBLAS can vary significantly depending on whether the
> problem size has been tuned or not [2].
Good suggestions.
Best,
Christian
> [1]: https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/pull/1087
> [2]: https://old.reddit.com/r/ROCm/comments/17m2qo0/how_to_tune_an_mi100/
[3] https://salsa.debian.org/rocm-team/community/team-project/-/wikis/ROCm-5.7-Release-Plan
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