[gmx-developers] Is there any hip version of gromacs?

[Vedran Miletić]

Hi Zhang,

2018.7 with HIP sounds very interesting. Is the code open source and 
posted somewhere?

Regards,
Vedran

04. 01. 2020. u 07:49, 张驭洲 je napisao/la:
> Dear gromacs developers,
> 
> I want to know if there is any HIP version of gromacs.HIP is a thin 
> layer above the AMD Rocm stack, and it allows CUDA code to be converted 
> to portable C++. You can find more details about HIP on 
> https://github.com/ROCm-Developer-Tools/HIP. Currently gromacs runs on 
> AMD GPU via OpenCL,but the performance of the OpenCL version may be 
> worse than the CUDA version.
> 
> Actually I have a HIP version of gromacs right now, which is converted 
> from 2018.7. I have tested it on AMD MI50 GPUs and get 10%~30% better 
> performance on some test cases than the OpenCL code of gromacs 2019.3. I 
> want to know if there is any official plan to develop HIP version 
> gromacs, or anyone else who is interested in this work.
> 
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> zhang
> 
> 

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