Prerequisites for hipBLAS installation

The following prerequisites are required to install hipBLAS, whether by using a package manager or building the application from the source code.

Prerequisites for Linux

The hipBLAS prerequisites are different than the rocBLAS and NVIDIA CUDA cuBLAS backend prerequisites.

• The prerequisites required to use the rocBLAS backend with AMD components are as follows:

  • A ROCm-enabled platform. For more information, see the Linux system requirements.

  • A compatible version of hipblas-common.

  • A compatible version of rocBLAS.

  • For full functionality, optionally install a compatible version of rocSOLVER and its rocSPARSE and rocPRIM dependencies.

• The prerequisites required to use the cuBLAS backend with NVIDIA components are as follows:

  • A HIP-enabled platform. For more information, see HIP installation.

  • A working CUDA toolkit, including cuBLAS. For more information, see CUDA toolkit.

Prerequisites for Microsoft Windows

• Here are the prerequisites required to use the rocBLAS backend with AMD components:

  • An AMD HIP SDK-enabled platform. For more information, see Windows system requirements.

  • A compatible version of hipblas-common.

  • A compatible version of rocBLAS.

  • For full functionality, a compatible version of rocSOLVER and its rocSPARSE and rocPRIM dependencies.

  • hipBLAS is supported on the same Windows versions and toolchains that HIP SDK supports.

• hipBLAS does not support the cuBLAS backend on Windows.