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AMD's Machine Intelligence Library
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Enable hipBLASLt as an optional backend for MIOpen GEMM kernels #3041

Open BrianHarrisonAMD opened 4 months ago

BrianHarrisonAMD commented 4 months ago

1. Description:

Enable hipBLASLt as an optional backend for MIOpen GEMM kernels.

For this first implementation we are proposing:

2. Value & Motivation:

3. Any additional information:

BrianHarrisonAMD commented 4 months ago

Note: Associated draft PR here #3030

BrianHarrisonAMD commented 3 months ago

In PR #3030 we discussed, "Use hipBLASLt as the backend GEMM kernels for RNNs on targeted hardware using half precision", and decided to instead have it only accessible via the environment variable, "MIOPEN_GEMM_ENFORCE_BACKEND=5" with this first limited rollout.