Installing RCCL using the install script

To quickly install RCCL using the install script, follow these steps. For instructions on building RCCL from the source code, see Building and installing RCCL from source code. For additional tips, see RCCL usage tips.

Requirements

The following prerequisites are required to use RCCL:

1. ROCm-supported GPUs

2. The ROCm stack must be installed on the system, including the HIP runtime and the HIP-Clang compiler.

Quick start RCCL build

RCCL directly depends on the HIP runtime plus the HIP-Clang compiler, which are part of the ROCm software stack. For ROCm installation instructions, see Installation via native package manager.

Use the install.sh helper script, located in the root directory of the RCCL repository, to build and install RCCL with a single command. It uses hard-coded configurations that can be specified directly when using cmake. However, it’s a great way to get started quickly and provides an example of how to build and install RCCL.

Building the library using the install script:

To build the library using the install script, use this command:

./install.sh

For more information on the build options and flags for the install script, run the following command:

./install.sh --help

The RCCL build and installation helper script options are as follows:

   --address-sanitizer     Build with address sanitizer enabled
-d|--dependencies          Install RCCL dependencies
   --debug                 Build debug library
   --enable_backtrace      Build with custom backtrace support
   --disable-colltrace     Build without collective trace
   --disable-msccl-kernel  Build without MSCCL kernels
   --disable-mscclpp       Build without MSCCL++ support
-f|--fast                  Quick-build RCCL (local gpu arch only, no backtrace, and collective trace support)
-h|--help                  Prints this help message
-i|--install               Install RCCL library (see --prefix argument below)
-j|--jobs                  Specify how many parallel compilation jobs to run ($nproc by default)
-l|--local_gpu_only        Only compile for local GPU architecture
   --amdgpu_targets        Only compile for specified GPU architecture(s). For multiple targets, separate by ';' (builds for all supported GPU architectures by default)
   --no_clean              Don't delete files if they already exist
   --npkit-enable          Compile with npkit enabled
   --openmp-test-enable    Enable OpenMP in rccl unit tests
   --roctx-enable          Compile with roctx enabled (example usage: rocprof --roctx-trace ./rccl-program)
-p|--package_build         Build RCCL package
   --prefix                Specify custom directory to install RCCL to (default: `/opt/rocm`)
   --rm-legacy-include-dir Remove legacy include dir Packaging added for file/folder reorg backward compatibility
   --run_tests_all         Run all rccl unit tests (must be built already)
-r|--run_tests_quick       Run small subset of rccl unit tests (must be built already)
   --static                Build RCCL as a static library instead of shared library
-t|--tests_build           Build rccl unit tests, but do not run
   --time-trace            Plot the build time of RCCL (requires `ninja-build` package installed on the system)
   --verbose               Show compile commands

Tip

By default, the RCCL install script builds all the GPU targets that are defined in DEFAULT_GPUS in CMakeLists.txt. To target specific GPUs and potentially reduce the build time, use --amdgpu_targets along with a semicolon (;) separated string list of the GPU targets.