kokkos-kernels VS rocBLAS

Compare kokkos-kernels vs rocBLAS and see what are their differences.

kokkos-kernels

Kokkos C++ Performance Portability Programming Ecosystem: Math Kernels - Provides BLAS, Sparse BLAS and Graph Kernels (by kokkos)

rocBLAS

Next generation BLAS implementation for ROCm platform (by ROCm)
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kokkos-kernels rocBLAS
1 6
276 315
3.3% 3.2%
9.1 9.7
4 days ago 8 days ago
C++ C++
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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kokkos-kernels

Posts with mentions or reviews of kokkos-kernels. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-08-09.

rocBLAS

Posts with mentions or reviews of rocBLAS. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-31.
  • Nvidia DGX GH200: The First 100 Terabyte GPU Memory System
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 31 May 2023
    The same is also true for https://github.com/ROCmSoftwarePlatform/rocBLAS and https://github.com/ROCmSoftwarePlatform/hipBLASLt although the build stack, distribution— leaves a lot to be desired, and otherwise quite unstable.
  • Whisper.cpp v1.4.0
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Apr 2023
    Full circle eh. I wonder how well it compares to just trying to use the actual Whisper models on a variety of existing Gpu capable bigger frameworks.

    I don't know much practically about how hard it would be to take the Whisper PyTorch (1 or 2?) trained models & to make good use of them elsewhere. I expect Whisper.cpp probably better caters to users, is more readily consumable.

    Fwiw, Whisper.cpp uses Nvidia's cuBLAS. There does appear to be an AMD rocm port. https://github.com/ROCmSoftwarePlatform/rocBLAS

  • which CPU to choose?
    1 project | /r/ROCm | 15 Jun 2022
    It's not what you asked, but I felt I should point out that rocBLAS is no longer maintained for gfx803 (the architecture of the RX 570) and PyTorch depends on rocBLAS. PyTorch will work at least to some extent, but there are known bugs that may never be fixed. I've been trying to change this, but that's how things are right now.
  • Trying to get Pytorch ROCm to work on Ubuntu 20.04 with Fiji cards
    1 project | /r/ROCm | 21 Apr 2022
    The last release that officially supported gfx803 was ROCm 3.5. All testing on that hardware ceased shortly after said release, and the code paths for that architecture have been unmaintained for nearly two years. For a specific example of a problem you may encounter, see: https://github.com/ROCmSoftwarePlatform/rocBLAS/issues/1218
  • Compute Ecosystem of AMD GPUs
    3 projects | /r/Amd | 22 Mar 2021
  • PyTorch 1.8 adds AMD ROCm support
    3 projects | /r/Amd | 5 Mar 2021
    Although the code is still there, support for (slightly) older devices are already suffering from lack of maintainence and bugs. For instance there's a bug causing gfx803 devices to produce wrong outputs starting from mid-2020, and I'm pretty sure they're never gonna fix it.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing kokkos-kernels and rocBLAS you can also consider the following projects:

oneMKL - oneAPI Math Kernel Library (oneMKL) Interfaces

ROCm - AMD ROCm™ Software - GitHub Home [Moved to: https://github.com/ROCm/ROCm]

mdspan - Reference implementation of mdspan targeting C++23

HIP-CPU - An implementation of HIP that works on CPUs, across OSes.

kronmult993 - CPU and GPU implementations of kronmult.

AdaptiveCpp - Implementation of SYCL and C++ standard parallelism for CPUs and GPUs from all vendors: The independent, community-driven compiler for C++-based heterogeneous programming models. Lets applications adapt themselves to all the hardware in the system - even at runtime!

cu - package cu provides an idiomatic interface to the CUDA Driver API.

Pytorch - Tensors and Dynamic neural networks in Python with strong GPU acceleration