preview_1.0.17066

• Improved support for math device functions.
• Added several half math device functions.
• Enabled support for CUDA 8.0 in hipify-clang.
• Lots of bug fixes and documentation updates.

Notes:

• The code has been tested using HCC tagged version preview_1.0.17065.
• For convenience, a script that pulls the correct HCC and HIP code from github and builds it as well has been added to the release. To use it, simply download the script build_hcc_and_hip.sh to an empty folder on your development machine and run ./build_hcc_and_hip.sh
• Alternatively you can download the HCC and HIP debian packages from the corresponding project release tags.

preview_1.0.17015

• Several improvements to the hipify-clang infrastructure.
• Refactored module and function APIs.
• HIP now defaults to linking against the shared runtime library.
• Documentation updates.

Notes:

• The code has been tested using HCC tagged version develop_0.10.16501.
• For convenience, a script that pulls the correct HCC and HIP code from github and builds it as well has been added to the release. To use it, simply download the script build_hcc_and_hip.sh to an empty folder on your development machine and run ./build_hcc_and_hip.sh
• Alternatively you can download the HCC and HIP debian packages from the corresponding project release tags.

preview_1.0.16502

• Added several fast math and packaged math instrincs
• Improved debug and profiler documentation
• Support for building and linking to HIP shared library
• Several improvements to hipify-clang
• Several bug fixes

Notes:

• The code has been tested using HCC tagged version develop_0.10.16501.
• For convenience, a script that pulls the correct HCC and HIP code from github and builds it as well has been added to the release. To use it, simply download the script build_hcc_and_hip.sh to an empty folder on your development machine and run ./build_hcc_and_hip.sh
• Alternatively you can download the HCC and HIP debian packages from the corresponding project release tags.

preview_1.0.16461

• Significant changes to the HIP Profiling APIs. Refer to the documentation for details
• Improvements to P2P support
• New API: hipDeviceGetByPCIBusId
• Several bug fixes in NV path
• hipModuleLaunch now works for multi-dim kernels

Notes:

• The code has been tested using HCC tagged version develop_0.10.16454.
• For convenience, a script that pulls the correct HCC and HIP code from github and builds it as well has been added to the release. To use it, simply download the script build_hcc_and_hip.sh to an empty folder on your development machine and run ./build_hcc_and_hip.sh
• Alternatively you can download the HCC and HIP debian packages from the corresponding project release tags.

release_1.0.16435

Release:1.0
Date: 2016.11.8

• Initial implementation for FindHIP.cmake
• HIP library now installs as a static library by default
• Added support for HIP context and HIP module APIs
• Major changes to HIP signal & memory management implementation
• Support for complex data type and math functions
• clang-hipify is now known as hipify-clang
• Added several new HIP samples
• Preliminary support for new APIs: hipMemcpyToSymbol, hipDeviceGetLimit, hipRuntimeGetVersion
• Added support for async memcpy driver API (for example hipMemcpyHtoDAsync)
• Support for memory management device functions: malloc, free, memcpy & memset
• Removed deprecated HIP runtime header locations. Please include "hip/hip_runtime.h" instead of "hip_runtime.h". You can use find . -type f -exec sed -i 's:#include "hip_runtime.h":#include "hip/hip_runtime.h":g' {} + to replace all such references

preview_1.0.16424

• Added back deprecated APIs: hipHostAlloc, hipMallocHost and hipFreeHost
• Preliminary support for new APIs: hipMemcpyToSymbol, hipDeviceGetLimit
• Support for memory management device functions: malloc, free, memcpy & memset
• hipblas headers have moved to hcblas repo
• Renamed hipComplex.h to hip_complex.h
• More samples added to the cookbook
• Documentation updates
• Bumped HIP version to 1.0.x for upcoming release

Notes:

• The code has been tested using HCC tagged version develop_0.10.16415.
• For convenience, a script that pulls the correct HCC and HIP code from github and builds it as well has been added to the release. To use it, simply download the script build_hcc_and_hip.sh to an empty folder on your development machine and run ./build_hcc_and_hip.sh
• Alternatively you can download the HCC and HIP debian packages from the corresponding project release tags.

preview_0.92.16405

• Added __mul24 and __umul24 integer intrinsics support.
• clang-hipify is now known as hipify-clang.
• Removed deprecated HIP runtime header locations. Please include "hip/hip_runtime.h" instead of "hip_runtime.h". You can use find . -type f -exec sed -i 's:#include "hip_runtime.h":#include "hip/hip_runtime.h":g' {} + to replace all such references.
• Documentation updates.

Notes:

• The code has been tested using HCC tagged version develop_0.10.16402.
• For convenience, a script that pulls the correct HCC and HIP code from github and builds it as well has been added to the release. To use it, simply download the script build_hcc_and_hip.sh to an empty folder on your development machine and run ./build_hcc_and_hip.sh
• Alternatively you can download the HCC and HIP debian packages from the corresponding project release tags.

preview_0.92.16395

• Bug fixes in FindHIP cmake module.
• New APIs: hipRuntimeGetVersion.
• Removed following deprecated APIs: hipMallocHost, hipHostAlloc, hipFreeHost.
• Major changes to HIP signal & memory management implementation.
• Added several new samples.
• New test infrastructure.
• Documentation updates.

Notes:

• The code has been tested using HCC tagged version develop_0.10.16392.
• For convenience, a script that pulls the correct HCC and HIP code from github and builds it as well has been added to the release. To use it, simply download the script build_hcc_and_hip.sh to an empty folder on your development machine and run ./build_hcc_and_hip.sh

preview_0.92.16375

• Added support for async memcpy driver API (for example hipMemcpyHtoDAsync).
• clang-hipify support for CUDA driver memory functions.
• Initial support for HIP_ADD_LIBRARY in FindHIP.
• Documentation clean up and several updates.

Notes:

• The code has been tested using HCC develop branch commit 6e43ee8.
• For convenience, a script that pulls the correct HCC and HIP code from github and builds it as well has been added to the release. To use it, simply download the script build_hcc_and_hip.sh to an empty folder on your development machine and run ./build_hcc_and_hip.sh

preview_0.92.16365

• clang-hipify support for CUDA driver APIs.
• Improvements to module code generation.
• Hip library now installs as a static library by default.
• Some more signal management fixes.

Note: Code has been tested using HCC develop branch commit 6e43ee8.