Greetings to the community!
As part of my GSoC'25[1] work under the mentorship of Cordell Bloor (cc'd), I plan to enable ROCm for gloo[2]. I would like to know if anyone else is also working on the same. If that is the case, then I hope that the following information is useful.
I spent a little time over the package and have made some progress. The package already has rules[3] and control files for building the package with ROCm (they also have the same for CUDA) but they had been kept in a separate file named control.rocm[4]. I moved the package names from the control.rocm file to the main control file and the package now builds with libgloo-rocm* binaries. They already have the corresponding *.install[5][6] files in place too. I have not had the opportunity to test this new package though.
It must be noted that the two dependencies that ROCm enabled gloo needs are hipcc and librccl-dev[7] [8]. The latter is only on the unstable and trixie (testing) branches[9] right now (which explains why this wasn't done earlier despite having the necessary rules and control files in place).
I have already made the changes and pushed them to my gloo fork[10] but I haven't made an MR yet.
Regards,
Spaarsh Thakkar