TheRock/rocm-systems/projects/hipfile/README.md

hipFile

Caution

This release is an early-access software technology preview. Running production workloads is not recommended.

hipFile is AMD's Infinity Storage library that provides direct-to-GPU I/O for the ROCm platform. The library provides C and Python APIs for synchronous, asynchronous, and batch I/O operations. hipFile automatically falls back to POSIX I/O when operations are unable to use the direct-to-GPU path.

Note

The published documentation is available at hipFile in an organized, easy-to-read format, with search and a table of contents. The documentation source files reside in projects/hipfile/docs in this repository. As with all ROCm projects, the documentation is open source.

Installing and Using hipFile

See INSTALL.md in the project root for a list of supported hardware and compilers as well as build and install instructions.

hipify support

The amd-develop branch of ROCm/HIPIFY now has support for hipFile. The hipFile changes are not yet in a public release.

A cuFile --> hipFile API map can be found here

fio support

We've created a fork of axboe/fio at ROCm/fio. Changes to support a libhipfile engine can be found in the hipFile branch. We package unofficial releases of this branch here.