hipSOLVER is a LAPACK marshalling library, with multiple supported backends. It sits between the application and a 'worker' LAPACK library, marshalling inputs into the backend library and marshalling results back to the application. hipSOLVER exports an interface that does not require the client to change, regardless of the chosen backend. Currently, hipSOLVER supports rocSOLVER and cuSOLVER as backends.
Note
The published hipSOLVER documentation is available at hipSOLVER in an organized, easy-to-read format, with search and a table of contents. The documentation source files reside in the hipSOLVER/docs folder of this repository. As with all ROCm projects, the documentation is open source. For more information, see Contribute to ROCm documentation.
Run the steps below to build documentation locally.
cd docs
pip3 install -r sphinx/requirements.txt
python3 -m sphinx -T -E -b html -d _build/doctrees -D language=en . _build/html
To download the hipSOLVER source code, clone this repository with the command:
git clone https://github.com/ROCmSoftwarePlatform/hipSOLVER.git
hipSOLVER requires either cuSOLVER or rocSOLVER + SuiteSparse to be installed on the system. Once these are installed, the following commands will build hipSOLVER and install to /opt/rocm
:
cd hipSOLVER
./install.sh -i
Once installed, hipSOLVER can be used just like any other library with a C API. The header file will need to be included in the user code, and the hipSOLVER library will become a link-time and run-time dependency for the user application.
For more information on building and installing hipSOLVER, see the hipSOLVER install guide
The hipSOLVER interface is compatible with the rocSOLVER and cuSOLVER-v11 APIs. Porting a CUDA application that originally calls the cuSOLVER API to an application calling the hipSOLVER API should be fairly straightforward (see porting a cuSOLVER application to hipSOLVER). For example, the hipSOLVER SGEQRF interface is
hipsolverStatus_t
hipsolverSgeqrf_bufferSize(hipsolverHandle_t handle,
int m,
int n,
float* A,
int lda,
int* lwork);
hipsolverStatus_t
hipsolverSgeqrf(hipsolverHandle_t handle,
int m,
int n,
float* A,
int lda,
float* tau,
float* work,
int lwork,
int* devInfo);
For a complete listing of all supported functions, see the hipSOLVER user guide and/or API documentation.