CHANGELOG.md

Changelog for RPP

Full documentation for RPP is available at https://rocm.docs.amd.com/projects/rpp/en/latest

(Unreleased) RPP 3.1.1

Added

• Runtime backend selection parameter (RppBackend executionBackend) for all RPP tensor API functions
• Backend tracking in rppHandle_t to store backend type (HOST or HIP)
• Added RPP_ERROR_HIP_LAUNCH error type for reporting HIP kernel launch errors.

Removed

• BatchPD legacy support completely removed
• LEGACY_SUPPORT compilation flag and all code enclosed within it
• OpenCL backend support
• Batch PD test suite and installation

Changed

• All RPP tensor API functions now unified with a single function signature
• Updated all test suite calls to use unified API with backend parameter
• Enhanced layout validation for image augmentations within unified API
• CMakeLists.txt updated to remove batch PD references

RPP 2.2.1 for ROCm 7.2.1

Added

• Error-code capture in test scripts for all C++ tests.

Optimized

• Optimized F16 variants by replacing scalar load/store operations with AVX2 intrinsics for spatter, log, blend, color_cast, flip, crop_mirror_normalize, and exposure kernels.

RPP 2.2.0 for ROCm 7.2.0

Added

• Pinned buffer API support for HOST and HIP

Changed

• AMDClag++ compiler has moved to ${ROCM_PATH}/lib/llvm/bin

Removed

• The copy_param_float() and copy_param_uint() mem copy helper functions have been removed as buffers now consistently use pinned/HIP memory

Resolved issues

• Test Suite - Error Code Capture updates

RPP 2.1.0 for ROCm 7.1.0

Added

• Solarize augmentation for HOST and HIP
• Hue and Saturation adjustment augmentations for HOST and HIP
• Find RPP - cmake module
• Posterize augmentation for HOST and HIP

Changed

• HALF - Fix half.hpp path updates
• Box filter - padding updates

Removed

• Packaging - Remove Meta Package dependency for HIP
• SLES 15 SP6 support

Resolved issues

• Test Suite - Fixes for accuracy
• HIP Backend - Check return status warning fixes
• Bugfix - HIP vector types init

RPP 2.0.0 for ROCm 7.0.0

Added

• Bitwise NOT, Bitwise AND, Bitwise OR augmentations on HOST (CPU) and HIP backends. (#520)
• Tensor Concat augmentation on HOST (CPU) and HIP backends. (#530)
• JPEG Compression Distortion augmentation on HIP backend. (#538)
• log1p, defined as log (1 + x), tensor augmentation support on HOST (CPU) and HIP backends.
• JPEG Compression Distortion augmentation on HOST (CPU) backend. (#531)

Changed

• All handle creation and destruction APIs have been consolidated to rppCreate(), for handle initialization, and rppDestroy(), for handle destruction (#513)
• RPP function category "logical_operations" more appropriately renamed to "bitwise_operations". (#520)
• TurboJPEG package installation enabled for RPP Test Suite with sudo apt-get install libturbojpeg0-dev. Instructions updated in utilities/test_suite/README.md. (#518)
• Changed API of swap_channels augmentation to be called channel_permute, which now accepts one new argument, "permutationTensor" (pointer to a unsigned int tensor) that provides the permutation order to swap the RGB channels of each input image in the batch in any order. (#547)
  • Old API - RppStatus rppt_swap_channels_host(RppPtr_t srcPtr, RpptDescPtr srcDescPtr, RppPtr_t dstPtr, RpptDescPtr dstDescPtr, rppHandle_t rppHandle);
  • New API - RppStatus rppt_channel_permute_host(RppPtr_t srcPtr, RpptDescPtr srcDescPtr, RppPtr_t dstPtr, RpptDescPtr dstDescPtr, Rpp32u *permutationTensor , rppHandle_t rppHandle);

Removed

• Older versions of RPP handle creation inlcuding rppCreateWithBatchSize(), rppCreateWithStream(), and rppCreateWithStreamAndBatchSize() are now removed and replaced with rppCreate().
• Older versions of RPP handle destruction API including rppDestroyGPU() and rppDestroyHost() are now removed and replaced with rppDestroy().

Resolved issues

• Test package - debian packages will install required dependencies

RPP 1.9.10 for ROCm 6.4.0

Added

• RPP Tensor Gaussian Filter support on HOST (CPU) backend. (#478)
• RPP Fog augmentation on HOST (CPU) and HIP backends. (#446)
• RPP Rain augmentation on HOST(CPU) and HIP backends. (#463)
• RPP Warp Perspective on HOST (CPU) and HIP backends. (#451)
• RPP Tensor Bitwise-XOR support on HOST (CPU) and HIP backends. (#464)
• RPP Threshold on HOST (CPU) and HIP backends. (#456)
• RPP Tensor Box Filter support on HOST (CPU) backend.(#425)
• RPP Audio Support for Spectrogram on HIP backend. (#433)
• RPP Audio Support for Mel Filter Bank on HIP backend. (#421)

Changed

• AMD Clang is now the default CXX and C compiler
• AMD RPP can now pass HOST (CPU) build with g++ (#517)
• Test Suite case numbers have been replaced with ENUMs for all augmentations to enhance test suite readability (#499)
• Test suite updated to return error codes from RPP API and display them (#483)
• Internal to RPP working - Restructure half.hpp and hip_fp16.h includes in one common header (#459)

Resolved issues

• CXX Compiler: Fixed HOST (CPU) g++ issues. (#517)
• Deprecation warning fixed for the "'sprintf' is deprecated" warning. (#512)
• Test suite build fix - RPP Test Suite Pre-requisite instructions updated to lock to a specific 'nifti_clib' commit as stated in ReadME - https://github.com/ROCm/rpp/tree/develop/utilities/test_suite#prerequisites (#506)
• Fixed broken image links for pixelate and jitter (#461)
• Internal to RPP working - Bugfix for Log Tensor in stride updation in log_recursive function (#479)

RPP 1.9.1 for ROCm 6.3.0

Added

• RPP Glitch has been added to the HOST and HIP backend.
• RPP Pixelate has been added to the HOST and HIP backend.
• The following audio support was added to the HIP backend:
  • Resample
  • Pre emphasis filter
  • Down-mixing
  • To Decibels
  • Non silent region

Changed

• Test prerequisites have been updated.

Removed

• Older versions of TurboJPEG have been removed.

Optimized

• Updated the test suite

Resolved issues

• macOS build
• RPP Test Suite: augmentations fix
• Copy: bugfix for NCDHW layout
• MIVisionX compatibility fix: Resample and pre-emphasis filter

Known issues

• Package installation only supports the HIP backend.

Upcoming changes

• Optimized audio augmentations

RPP 1.8.0 for ROCm 6.2.0

Changes

• Prerequisites - ROCm install requires only --usecase=rocm
• Use pre-allocated common scratchBufferHip everywhere in Tensor code for scratch HIP memory
• Use CHECK_RETURN_STATUS everywhere to adhere to C++17 for hip
• RPP Tensor Audio support on HOST for Spectrogram
• RPP Tensor Audio support on HOST/HIP for Slice, by modifying voxel slice kernels to now accept anchor and shape params for a more generic version
• RPP Tensor Audio support on HOST for Mel Filter Bank
• RPP Tensor Normalize ND support on HOST and HIP

Tested configurations

• Linux distribution
  • Ubuntu - 20.04 / 22.04
  • CentOS - 7
  • RHEL - 8/9
• ROCm: rocm-core - 6.1.0.60100
• Clang - Version 5.0.1
• CMake - Version 3.22.3
• IEEE 754-based half-precision floating-point library - Version 1.12.0

RPP 1.5.0 for ROCm 6.1.1

Changes

• Prerequisites

Tested configurations

• Linux distribution
  • Ubuntu - 20.04 / 22.04
  • CentOS - 7
  • RHEL - 8/9
• ROCm: rocm-core - 5.5.0.50500-63
• Clang - Version 5.0.1 and above
• CMake - Version 3.22.3
• IEEE 754-based half-precision floating-point library - Version 1.12.0

RPP 1.4.0 for ROCm 6.0.0

Additions

• Updated unit tests
• Component-based packaging enabled for dev/runtime/ASan
• ASas build install/package changes added
• License file added to package
• Jenkins Groovy CI scripts enhanced to support multi-component package testing

Optimizations

• CMakeLists

Changes

• Documentation
• Replaced boost functions with the standard C++ library to remove boost library dependency

Fixes

• OCL backend

Tested configurations

• Linux
  • Ubuntu - 20.04 / 22.04
  • CentOS - 7
  • RHEL - 8/9
• ROCm: rocm-core - 5.5.0.50500-63
• Clang - Version 5.0.1 and above
• CMake - Version 3.22.3
• IEEE 754-based half-precision floating-point library - Version 1.12.0

RPP 1.3.0 for ROCm 5.7.1

Additions

• Updated unit tests

Optimizations

• CMakeLists

Changes

• Documentation

Fixes

• OCL backend

Tested configurations

• Linux
  • Ubuntu - 20.04 / 22.04
  • CentOS - 7
  • RHEL - 8/9
• ROCm: rocm-core - 5.5.0.50500-63
• Clang - Version 5.0.1 and above
• CMake - Version 3.22.3
• Boost - Version 1.72
• IEEE 754-based half-precision floating-point library - Version 1.12.0

RPP 1.2.0 for ROCm 5.7.1

Additions

• Updated unit tests

Optimizations

• CMakeLists

Changes

• Documentation

Fixes

• OCL backend
• Jenkins CI - OCL Build Test

Tested configurations

• Linux
  • Ubuntu - 20.04 / 22.04
  • CentOS - 7
  • RHEL - 8/9
• ROCm: rocm-core - 5.5.0.50500-63
• Clang - Version 5.0.1 and above
• CMake - Version 3.22.3
• Boost - Version 1.72
• IEEE 754-based half-precision floating-point library - Version 1.12.0

RPP 1.1.0 for ROCm 5.7.0

Additions

• Parameter support for OpenMP numthreads

Optimizations

• Readme updates

Changes

• RPP API updates

Fixes

• Minor bugs

Tested configurations

• Linux
  • Ubuntu - 20.04 / 22.04
  • CentOS - 7
  • RHEL - 8/9
• ROCm: rocm-core - 5.5.0.50500-63
• Clang - Version 5.0.1 and above
• CMake - Version 3.22.3
• Boost - Version 1.72
• IEEE 754-based half-precision floating-point library - Version 1.12.0

Known issues

• SLES - the Clang package is missing in the latest updates, which means Clang must be manually installed.

RPP 1.0.0 for ROCm 5.7.0

Additions

• Test Suite for all backends

Optimizations

• Readme updates
• Tests
• Build and prerequisites

Changes

• Our name has changed from Radeon Performance Primitives to ROCm Performance Primitives
• Lib name: amd_rpp to rpp

Fixes

• Minor bugs
• Tests
• Readme

Tested configurations

• Linux
  • Ubuntu - 20.04 / 22.04
  • CentOS - 7
  • RHEL - 8/9
• ROCm: rocm-core - 5.4.0.50400-72
• Clang - Version 5.0.1 and above
• CMake - Version 3.22.3
• Boost - Version 1.72
• IEEE 754-based half-precision floating-point library - Version 1.12.0

Known issues

• SLES - the Clang package is missing in the latest updates, which means Clang must be manually installed.

RPP 0.99 for ROCm 5.7.0

Additions

• Linux dockers

Optimizations

• Readme updates

Changes

• CMakeList

Fixes

• Minor bugs and warnings

Tested configurations

• Linux distribution
  • Ubuntu - 20.04 / 22.04
  • CentOS - 7/8
• ROCm: rocm-core - 5.4.0.50400-72
• Clang - Version 5.0.1 and above
• CMake - Version 3.22.3
• Boost - Version 1.72
• IEEE 754-based half-precision floating-point library - Version 1.12.0

RPP 0.98 for ROCm 5.7.0

Additions

• Dockers

Optimizations

• Readme updates

Changes

• CMakeList

Fixes

• Minor bugs and warnings

Tested configurations

• Linux
  • Ubuntu - 20.04 / 22.04
  • CentOS - 7/8
• ROCm: rocm-core - 5.3.0.50300-63
• Clang - Version 5.0.1 and above
• CMake - Version 3.22.3
• Boost - Version 1.72
• IEEE 754-based half-precision floating-point library - Version 1.12.0

RPP 0.97 for ROCm 5.7.0

Additions

• Support for CentOS 7 & SLES 15 SP2
• Support for ROCm 5.3+
• Support for Ubuntu 22.04

Optimizations

• Readme updates

Changes

• CMakeList updates

Fixes

• Minor bugs and warnings

Tested configurations

• Linux distribution
  • Ubuntu - 20.04 / 22.04
  • CentOS - 7/8
• ROCm: rocm-core - 5.3.0.50300-36
• Clang - Version 5.0.1 and above
• CMake - Version 3.22.3
• Boost - Version 1.72
• IEEE 754-based half-precision floating-point library - Version 1.12.0

RPP 0.96 for ROCm 5.7.0

Additions

• New tests

Optimizations

• Readme updates

Changes

• CPU/HIP/OpenCL backend updates

Fixes

• Minor bugs and warnings

Tested configurations

• Linux
  • Ubuntu - 18.04 / 20.04
  • CentOS - 8
• ROCm: rocm-core - 5.2.0.50200-65
• Clang - Version 6.0+
• CMake - Version 3.22.3
• Boost - Version 1.72
• IEEE 754-based half-precision floating-point library - Version 1.12.0

Known issues

• RPP is not supported on CentOS 7 and SLES SP2

RPP 0.95 for ROCm 5.7.0

Additions

• New tests
• CPU backend support

Optimizations

• Readme updates

Changes

• HIP is now the default backend

Fixes

• Minor bugs and warnings

Tested configurations

• Linux
  • Ubuntu - 18.04 / 20.04
  • CentOS - 8
• ROCm: rocm-core - 5.2.0.50200-65
• Clang - Version 6.0
• CMake - Version 3.22.3
• Boost - Version 1.72
• IEEE 754-based half-precision floating-point library - Version 1.12.0

Known issues

• ROCm reorganization: install updates no longer match ROCm specifications

RPP 0.93 for ROCm 5.7.0

Additions

• New tests

Optimizations

• Readme updates

Changes

• HIP is now the default backend

Fixes

• Minor bugs and warnings

Tested configurations

• Linux
  • Ubuntu - 18.04 / 20.04
  • CentOS - 8
• ROCm: rocm-core - 5.0.0.50000-49
• Clang - Version 6.0
• CMake - Version 3.22.3
• Boost - Version 1.72
• IEEE 754-based half-precision floating-point library - Version 1.12.0

Known issues

• CPU backend is not enabled