docs/reference/glossary.md

# Terms used in HIP Documentation

- host, host cpu : Executes the HIP runtime API and is capable of initiating kernel launches to one or more devices.
- default device : Each host thread maintains a "default device".
Most HIP runtime APIs (including memory allocation, copy commands, kernel launches) do not use accept an explicit device
argument but instead implicitly use the default device.
The default device can be set with hipSetDevice.

- "active host thread" - the thread which is running the HIP APIs.

- HIP-Clang - Heterogeneous AMDGPU Compiler, with its capability to compile HIP programs on AMD platform (https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/llvm-project).

- clr - a repository for AMD Common Language Runtime, contains source codes for AMD's compute languages runtimes: HIP and OpenCL™.
clr (https://github.com/ROCm/clr) contains the following three parts,
hipamd: contains implementation of HIP language on AMD platform.
rocclr: contains common runtime used in HIP and OpenCL™, which provides virtual device interfaces that compute runtimes interact with different backends such as ROCr on Linux or PAL on Windows.
opencl: contains implementation of OpenCL™ on AMD platform.

- hipify tools - tools to convert CUDA code to portable C++ code (https://github.com/ROCm/HIPIFY).

- hipconfig - tool to report various configuration properties of the target platform.

- nvcc = nvcc compiler, do not capitalize.
Initial commit for GPUOpen Launch 2016-01-26 20:14:33 -06:00			`# Terms used in HIP Documentation`

[HIP][doc] Update docs due to moving of HIPIFY to a separate repo (#2001 ) 2020-04-07 11:33:19 +03:00			`- host, host cpu : Executes the HIP runtime API and is capable of initiating kernel launches to one or more devices.`
			`- default device : Each host thread maintains a "default device".`
Initial commit for GPUOpen Launch 2016-01-26 20:14:33 -06:00			`Most HIP runtime APIs (including memory allocation, copy commands, kernel launches) do not use accept an explicit device`
			`argument but instead implicitly use the default device.`
			`The default device can be set with hipSetDevice.`

[HIP][doc] Update docs due to moving of HIPIFY to a separate repo (#2001 ) 2020-04-07 11:33:19 +03:00			`- "active host thread" - the thread which is running the HIP APIs.`
Initial commit for GPUOpen Launch 2016-01-26 20:14:33 -06:00
Update document for hip_faq.md, hip_porting_guide.md and hip_terms2.md 2020-05-22 19:43:28 -04:00			`- HIP-Clang - Heterogeneous AMDGPU Compiler, with its capability to compile HIP programs on AMD platform (https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/llvm-project).`

SWDEV-447465 - Update HIP documents for the repos link change 2024-02-23 13:18:01 -05:00			`- clr - a repository for AMD Common Language Runtime, contains source codes for AMD's compute languages runtimes: HIP and OpenCL™.`
			`clr (https://github.com/ROCm/clr) contains the following three parts,`
			`hipamd: contains implementation of HIP language on AMD platform.`
			`rocclr: contains common runtime used in HIP and OpenCL™, which provides virtual device interfaces that compute runtimes interact with different backends such as ROCr on Linux or PAL on Windows.`
			`opencl: contains implementation of OpenCL™ on AMD platform.`
Initial commit for GPUOpen Launch 2016-01-26 20:14:33 -06:00
SWDEV-447465 - Update HIP documents for the repos link change 2024-02-23 13:18:01 -05:00			`- hipify tools - tools to convert CUDA code to portable C++ code (https://github.com/ROCm/HIPIFY).`
Update document for hip_faq.md, hip_porting_guide.md and hip_terms2.md 2020-05-22 19:43:28 -04:00
Fix various typos 2016-12-14 00:13:30 +01:00			`- hipconfig - tool to report various configuration properties of the target platform.`
Initial commit for GPUOpen Launch 2016-01-26 20:14:33 -06:00
Add hipStreamQuery 2016-09-04 07:00:59 -05:00			`- nvcc = nvcc compiler, do not capitalize.`