Test hardware for ROCm on arm64 and ppc64el
Hello,
We now have a pretty good testing setup for ROCm on amd64. Given that
we're also building the ROCm libraries for arm64 and ppc64el, it would
be nice to know if they work on those platforms. I don't think the
Debian ROCm Team have the bandwidth to fix much ourselves, but it's hard
to make good decisions on portability questions without information.
The PowerPC driver was enabled and tested by Raptor Computing [1]. Their
Talos II systems seem to be getting a bit long in the tooth, but it
would still be nice to run the tests on a platform where we know the
driver was working. I'd like to try to find access to a Raptor Talos II
system to try this out.
Testing on ARM64 would require a system with PCIe slots. Gigabyte sells
GPU servers with processors from Ampere Computing that may be suitable
for this purpose. The Gigabyte G242-P33 [2] appears to be a reasonable
choice, as it is certified for use with NVIDIA GPUs.
I would estimate that the hardware required to expand the continuous
integration system to include basic coverage of PPC64 and ARM64 would
cost 20k-30k USD. That sort of expenditure would be difficult to
justify. As such, we might want to see if there are any interested
parties that already have this hardware available that would also be
interested in knowing these answers.
Sincerely,
Cory Bloor
[1]: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDKFD-Compute-POWERPC
[2]: https://www.gigabyte.com/Enterprise/GPU-Server/G242-P33-rev-100
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