Orochi VS kompute

While you're waiting for the HIP SDK to release, check out Orochi as an alternative https://github.com/GPUOpen-LibrariesAndSDKs/Orochi

This isn't a full-fledged SDK but if you develop using the driver/runtime API and nvrtc on Linux, you could certainly use this library to make it run on Windows https://github.com/GPUOpen-LibrariesAndSDKs/Orochi Bonus - it also lets you compile a single binary that runs on both CUDA and HIP!

You can't run CUDA binaries directly. But you can use a wrapper library like Orochi to run both CUDA and HIP using a single binary that dynamically links with CUDA/HIP libraries at runtime https://github.com/GPUOpen-LibrariesAndSDKs/Orochi

I stumbled across orochi from AMD while looking for their FSR2.0 implementation, which basically boils down to being a wrapper over Cuda and HIP. I don't know if it is still maintained or functional, but heres the link if anyone is interested: https://github.com/GPUOpen-LibrariesAndSDKs/Orochi

The two I know of are IREE and Kompute[1]. I'm not sure how much momentum the latter has, I don't see it referenced much. There's also a growing body of work that uses Vulkan indirectly through WebGPU. This is currently lagging in performance due to lack of subgroups and cooperative matrix mult, but I see that gap closing. There I think wonnx[2] has the most momentum, but I am aware of other efforts.

[1]: https://kompute.cc/

[2]: https://github.com/webonnx/wonnx

Great to see the positive momentum of this framework! Best wishes and upvotes from the Vulkan Kompute team :)

To a first approximation, Kompute[1] is that. It doesn't seem to be catching on, I'm seeing more buzz around WebGPU solutions, including wonnx[2] and more hand-rolled approaches, and IREE[3], the latter of which has a Vulkan back-end.

[1]: https://kompute.cc/

[2]: https://github.com/webonnx/wonnx

[3]: https://github.com/openxla/iree

I look in an example and see similar instructions, stating that the build should be quite simple. But again, it doesn't work. It generates a bunch of folders with Visual Studio stuff, but no executables, no libraries, or anything like that.

I can't figure out how, and there are no tutorials. According to https://kompute.cc/overview/build-system.html I should simply run "cmake -Bbuild". But this doesn't output what I need, and when I look in the Makefile I get the sense that this is more an example Makefile... but then that contradicts the above tutorial.

Kompute is in my opinion good example to take inspiration for abstractions.

Currently, there's a few Vulkan compute frameworks floating around (like Kompute). I would work with those. Kompute simplifies a lot of the biolerplate and seems like you could benefit from using it.

Try Kompute, a project from the Linux foundation. It is quite simple to use, and does not require deep knowledge of graphics API. It’s a bit painful to setup, but it kinda works well (and I have a project going on on it)

This so much.

This makes alot of sense considering the Linux Foundation is also in charge of Kompute which is likely to be the basis of vendor agnostic GPGPU, and thus the basis of vendor agnostic GPU-based machine learning.