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# Terms used in HIP Documentation
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- host, host cpu : Executes the HIP runtime API and is capable of initiating kernel launches to one or more devices.
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- default device : Each host thread maintains a "default device".
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Most HIP runtime APIs (including memory allocation, copy commands, kernel launches) do not use accept an explicit device
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argument but instead implicitly use the default device.
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The default device can be set with hipSetDevice.
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- "active host thread" - the thread which is running the HIP APIs.
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- completion_future becomes ready. "Completes"
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- hcc = Heterogeneous Compute Compiler (https://bitbucket.org/multicoreware/hcc/wiki/Home).
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- hipify - tool to convert CUDA(R) code to portable C++ code.
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- hipconfig - tool to report various confoguration properties of the target platform.
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