Installation

2. Installation#

2.1. Introduction#

This chapter describes how to obtain hipRAND. There are two main methods: the easiest way is to install the prebuilt packages from the ROCm repositories. Alternatively, this chapter also describes how to build hipRAND from source.

2.2. Prebuilt Packages#

Installing the prebuilt hipRAND packages requires a ROCm-enabled platform. See the ROCm documentation for more information. After installing ROCm or enabling the ROCm repositories, hipRAND can be obtained using the system package manager.

For Ubuntu and Debian:

sudo apt-get install hiprand

For CentOS:

sudo yum install hiprand

For SLES:

sudo dnf install hiprand

This will install hipRAND into the /opt/rocm directory.

2.3. Building hipRAND From Source#

2.3.1. Requirements#

To build hipRAND, CMake version 3.10 or later is required.

Additionally, to build hipRAND for the ROCm platform, the following software are required:

  • AMD ROCm platform (version 5.0.0 or later).

  • rocRAND

To build hipRAND for the CUDA platform instead, the following software is required:

  • The CUDA Toolkit

  • cuRAND (included in the CUDA Toolkit)

2.3.2. Obtaining Sources#

The hipRAND sources are available from the hipRAND GitHub Repository. Use the branch that matches the system-installed version of ROCm. For example on a system that has ROCm 5.4 installed, use the following command to obtain hipRAND sources:

git checkout -b release/rocm-rel-5.4 https://github.com/ROCmSoftwarePlatform/hipRAND.git

2.3.3. Building the Library#

After obtaining the sources and dependencies, hipRAND can be built for the ROCm platform using the installation script:

cd hipRAND
./install --install

This automatically builds all required dependencies, excluding HIP and Git, and installs the project to /opt/rocm if everything went well. See ./install --help for further information.

2.3.4. Building with CMake#

For a more elaborate installation process, hipRAND can be built manually using CMake. This enables certain configuration options that are not exposed to the ./install script. In general, hipRAND can be built using CMake by configuring as follows:

cd hipRAND; mkdir build; cd build
# Configure the project
CXX=<compiler> cmake [options] ..
# Build
make -j$(nproc)
# Optionally, run the tests
ctest --output-on-failure
# Install
[sudo] make install

Where <compiler>> should be set to hipcc on a ROCm platform, or to a regular C++ compiler such as g++ on a CUDA platform.

  • BUILD_WITH_LIB controls whether to build hipRAND with the rocRAND or cuRAND backend. If set to CUDA, hipRAND will be built using the cuRAND backend. Otherwise, the rocRAND backend will be used.

  • BUILD_FORTRAN_WRAPPER controls whether to build the Fortran wrapper. Defaults to OFF.

  • BUILD_TEST controls whether to build the hipRAND tests. Defaults to OFF.

  • BUILD_BENCHMARK controls whether to build the hipRAND benchmarks. Defaults to OFF.

  • BUILD_ADDRESS_SANITIZER controls whether to build with address sanitization enabled. Defaults to OFF.

2.4. Building the Python API Wrapper#

2.4.1. Requirements#

The hipRAND Python API Wrapper requires the following dependencies:

  • hipRAND

  • Python 3.5

  • NumPy (will be installed automatically as a dependency if necessary)

Note: If hipRAND is built from sources but not installed or installed in non-standard directory, set the ROCRAND_PATH or HIPRAND_PATH environment variable to the path containing libhiprand.so. For example:

export HIPRAND_PATH=~/hipRAND/build/library/

2.4.2. Installing#

The Python hipRAND module can be installed using pip:

cd hipRAND/python/hiprand
pip install .

The tests can be executed as follows:

cd hipRAND/python/hiprand
python tests/hiprand_test.py
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