Re: First draft of ROCm 6.1 Release Plan
Hi,
> On Sep 5, 2024, at 17:03, Christian Kastner <ckk@debian.org> wrote:
>
>> The PyTorch library currently has a dependency on hipBLASLt. We should
>> be proposing a patch to make it an optional dependency, given that
>> hipBLASLt only supports CDNA 2, CDNA 3 and RDNA 3 architectures.
>> Nevertheless, it is an important place where hipBLASLt provides value.
>> The rocBLAS library will also depend on hipBLASLt in ROCm 6.3. It has
>> been merged as a hard dependency, although I expect it will be changed
>> to an optional dependency before release.
>
> As such, we should package it soon anyway, regardless of if/how we
> eventually make use of it in PyTorch.
FYI: last December I asked the developers about the hipBLASLt support on MI100 [1], and recently they replied that there is a commit to support GFX908 [2]. We should consider how many architectures we’re supposed to maintain (for hipBLASLt and PyTorch).
Best,
Xuanteng
[1]: https://github.com/ROCm/hipBLASLt/issues/516
[2]: https://github.com/ROCm/hipBLASLt/commit/938900a10d0c433eb8b90c2a3b65ba70ed39a91b
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