Installing ROCm SMI

Installing ROCm SMI#

Planned deprecation notice#

ROCm System Management Interface (ROCm SMI) Library is planned to be *deprecated*, and the release date will be announced soon. We recommend migration to AMD SMI.

Install amdgpu using ROCm#

Use the following instructions to install AMDGPU using ROCm:

  1. Install amdgpu driver. Refer to the following example, your release and link may differ. The amdgpu-install –usecase=rocm triggers both an amdgpu driver update and ROCm SMI packages to be installed on your device.

sudo apt update
wget https://repo.radeon.com/amdgpu-install/6.0.2/ubuntu/jammy/amdgpu-install_6.0.60002-1_all.deb
sudo apt install ./amdgpu-install_6.0.60002-1_all.deb
sudo amdgpu-install --usecase=rocm

  • rocm-smi –help

Building ROCm SMI#

Additional required software#

To build the ROCm SMI library, the following components are required.

The following software versions are what was used in development. Earlier versions are not guaranteed to work:

  • CMake (v3.5.0)

  • g++ (5.4.0)

To build the latest documentation, the following are required:

  • Python 3.8+

  • NPM (sass)

The source code for ROCm SMI is available on Github.

After the ROCm SMI library git repository is cloned to a local Linux machine, use the following CMake build sequence to build the library. Specifically,

mkdir -p build
cd build
cmake ..
make -j $(nproc)
# Install library file and header; default location is /opt/rocm
make install

The built library will appear in the build folder.

To build the rpm and deb packages follow the above steps with:

make package

To install on Ubuntu/RHEL:

sudo dpkg -i ./<path to deb>.deb

For example,

sudo dpkg -i ./build/rocm-smi-lib_7.0.0.99999-local_amd64.deb
sudo rpm -ivh ./build/rocm-smi-lib-7.0.0.99999-local.x86_64.rpm

Users may need to update LD_LIBRARY_PATH and PATH accordingly. Libraries are installed under /opt/rocm/lib/ and CLI is under /opt/rocm/bin/. Typically, these actions are done by the ROCm install.

For example,

export PATH=$PATH:/opt/rocm/bin/
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/rocm/lib/

Building documentation#

The following is an example of how to build the docs:

python3 -m venv .venv
.venv/bin/python3 -m pip install -r docs/sphinx/requirements.txt
.venv/bin/python3 -m sphinx -T -E -b html -d docs/_build/doctrees -D language=en docs docs/_build/html

Building tests#

To verify the build and capability of ROCm SMI on your system and to see an example of how ROCm SMI can be used, you may build and run the tests that are available in the repo. To build the tests, follow these steps:

mkdir build
cd build
cmake -DBUILD_TESTS=ON ..
make -j $(nproc)

To run the test, execute the program rsmitst that is built from the preceding steps.

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