rocm-systems/CHANGELOG.md

Changelog for ROCm Compute Profiler

Full documentation for ROCm Compute Profiler is available at https://rocm.docs.amd.com/projects/rocprofiler-compute/en/latest/.

Unreleased

Added

• Add Docker files to package the application and dependencies into a single portable and executable standalone binary file

Changed

• Change normal_unit default to per_kernel

Resolved issues

• Fixed option specs-correction

(Unreleased) ROCm Compute Profiler 3.1.0 for ROCm 6.4.0

Added

• Roofline support for Ubuntu 24.04
• Experimental support rocprofv3 (not enabled as default)
• Experimental feature: Spatial multiplexing

Resolved issues

• Fixed PoP of VALU Active Threads
• Workaround broken mclk for old version of rocm-smi

ROCm Compute Profiler 3.0.0 for ROCm 6.3.0

Changed

• Renamed Omniperf to ROCm Compute Profiler (#475)

Omniperf 2.0.1 for ROCm 6.2.1

Changed

• enable rocprofv1 for MI300 hardware (#391)
• refactoring and updating documemtation (#362, #394, #398, #414, #420)
• branch renaming and workflow updates (#389, #404, #409)
• bug fix for analysis output
• add dependency checks on application launch (#393)
• patch for profiling multi-process/multi-GPU applications (#376, #396)
• packaging updates (#386)
• rename CHANGES to CHANGELOG.md (#410)
• rollback Grafana version in Dockerfile for Angular plugin compatibility (#416)
• enable CI triggers for Azure CI (#426)
• add GPU model distinction for MI300 systems (#423)
• new MAINTAINERS.md guide for omniperf publishing procedures (#402)

Optimized

• reduced running time of Omniperf when profiling (#384)
• console logging improvements

Omniperf 2.0.1 for ROCm 6.2.0

Added

• new option to force hardware target via OMNIPERF_ARCH_OVERRIDE global (#370)
• CI/CD support for MI300 hardware (#373)
• support for MI308X hardware (#375)

Optimized

• cmake build improvements (#374)

Omniperf 2.0.0 (17 May 2024)

• improved logging than spans all modes (#177) (#317) (#335) (#341)
• overhauled CI/CD that spans all modes (#179)
• extensible SoC classes to better support adding new hardware configs (#180)
• --kernel-verbose no longer overwrites kernel names (#193)
• general cleanup and improved organization of source code (#200) (#210)
• separate requirement files for docs and testing dependencies (#205) (#262) (#358)
• add support for MI300 hardware (#231)
• upgrade Grafana assets and build script to latest release (#235)
• update minimum ROCm and Python requirements (#277)
• sort rocprofiler input files prior to profiling (#304)
• new --quiet option will suppress verbose output and show a progress bar (#308)
• roofline support for Ubuntu 22.04 (#319)

Omniperf 1.1.0-PR1 (13 Oct 2023)

• standardize headers to use 'avg' instead of 'mean'
• add color code thresholds to standalone gui to match grafana
• modify kernel name shortener to use cpp_filt (#168)
• enable stochastic kernel dispatch selection (#183)
• patch grafana plugin module to address a known issue in the latest version (#186)
• enhanced communication between analyze mode kernel flags (#187)

Omniperf 1.0.10 (22 Aug 2023)

• critical patch for detection of llvm in rocm installs on SLURM systems

Omniperf 1.0.9 (17 Aug 2023)

• add units to L2 per-channel panel (#133)
• new quickstart guide for Grafana setup in docs (#135)
• more detail on kernel and dispatch filtering in docs (#136, #137)
• patch manual join utility for ROCm >5.2.x (#139)
• add % of peak values to low level speed-of-light panels (#140)
• patch critical bug in Grafana by removing a deprecated plugin (#141)
• enhancements to KernelName demangeler (#142)
• general metric updates and enhancements (#144, #155, #159)
• add min/max/avg breakdown to instruction mix panel (#154)

Omniperf 1.0.8 (30 May 2023)

• add --kernel-names option to toggle kernelName overlay in standalone roofline plot (#93)

• remove unused python modules (#96)

• fix empirical roofline calculation for single dispatch workloads (#97)

• match color of arithmetic intensity points to corresponding bw lines

• ux improvements in standalone GUI (#101)

• enhanced readability for filtering dropdowns in standalone GUI (#102)

• new logfile to capture rocprofiler output (#106)

• roofline support for sles15 sp4 and future service packs (#109)

• adding dockerfiles for all supported Linux distros

• new examples for --roof-only and --kernel options added to documentation

• enable cli analysis in Windows (#110)

• optional random port number in standalone GUI (#111)

• limit length of visible kernelName in --kernel-names option (#115)

• adjust metric definitions (#117, #130)

• manually merge rocprof runs, overriding default rocprofiler implementation (#125)

• fixed compatibility issues with Python 3.11 (#131)

Omniperf 1.0.8-PR2 (17 Apr 2023)

• ux improvements in standalone GUI (#101)
• enhanced readability for filtering dropdowns in standalone GUI (#102)
• new logfile to capture rocprofiler output (#106)
• roofline support for sles15 sp4 and future service packs (#109)
• adding dockerfiles for all supported Linux distros
• new examples for --roof-only and --kernel options added to documentation

Omniperf 1.0.8-PR1 (13 Mar 2023)

• add --kernel-names option to toggle kernelName overlay in standalone roofline plot (#93)
• remove unused python modules (#96)
• fix empirical roofline calculation for single dispatch workloads (#97)
• match color of arithmetic intensity points to corresponding bw lines

Omniperf 1.0.7 (21 Feb 2023)

• update documentation (#52, #64)
• improved detection of invalid command line arguments (#58, #76)
• enhancements to standalone roofline (#61)
• enable Omniperf on systems with X-server (#62)
• raise minimum version requirement for rocm (#64)
• enable baseline comparison in CLI analysis (#65)
• add multi-normalization to new metrics (#68, #81)
• support alternative profilers (#70)
• add MI100 configs to override rocprofiler's incomplete default (#75)
• improve error message when no GPU(s) detected (#85)
• separate CI tests by Linux distro and add status badges

Omniperf 1.0.6 (21 Dec 2022)

• CI update: documentation now published via github action (#22)
• better error detection for incomplete ROCm installs (#56)

Omniperf 1.0.5 (13 Dec 2022)

• store application command-line parameters in profiling output (#27)
• enable additional normalizations in CLI mode (#30)
• add missing ubuntu 20.04 roofline binary to packaging (#34)
• update L1 bandwidth metric calculations (#36)
• add L1 <-> L2 bandwidth calculation (#37)
• documentation updates (#38, #41)
• enhanced subprocess logging to identify critical errors in rocprofiler (#50)
• maintain git sha in production installs from tarball (#53)

Omniperf 1.0.4 (11 Nov 2022)

• update python requirements.txt with minimum versions for numpy and pandas
• addition of progress bar indicator in web-based GUI (#8)
• reduced default content for web-based GUI to reduce load times (#9)
• minor packaging and CI updates
• variety of documentation updates
• added an optional argument to vcopy.cpp workload example to specify device id

Omniperf 1.0.3 (07 Nov 2022)

• initial Omniperf release