HIP / ROCm

Purpose

Guide agents through AMD GPU programming with HIP: the HIP runtime API, hipcc compilation, porting CUDA code with HIPIFY (hipify-perl, hipify-clang), ROCm toolchain setup, profiling with rocprof, debugging with rocgdb, HIP-vs-CUDA API mapping, and MI300X-specific optimizations.

When to Use

• Porting an existing CUDA codebase to AMD GPUs
• Setting up ROCm on Linux for MI200/MI300 hardware
• Writing native HIP kernels for AMD data center GPUs
• Profiling HIP applications with rocprof or rocprofiler-sdk
• Debugging device faults with rocgdb or compute sanitizers
• Building multi-vendor GPU code with HIP portability macros

Workflow

1. ROCm installation and verification