v0.8.1

AMDGPU v0.8.1

Diff since v0.8.0

Merged pull requests:

• Implement device-side RNG (#380) (@utkarsh530)
• Fix path detection in ubuntu like systems (#545) (@gbaraldi)
• Simplify ROCm discovery (#548) (@pxl-th)
• [rocSPARSE] Add new constructors (#550) (@amontoison)
• Check context is valid before freeing streams, arrays. (#552) (@pxl-th)
• [rocSPARSE] Update helpers.jl (#554) (@amontoison)
• Use Atomix.jl for atomics (#555) (@pxl-th)
• Reset exception holder immediately after exception (#556) (@pxl-th)
• Fix exception reporting (#557) (@pxl-th)
• Cleanup (#559) (@pxl-th)

Closed issues:

• Implement sparse BLAS routines (#15)
• Implement iterative solvers (#13)
• Create a Docker image for AMDGPU.jl (#33)
• Implement batched off-thread HSA signal waiting (#128)
• HSA_STATUS_ERROR_INVALID_CODE_OBJECT on gfx803 (#192)
• hsa_executable_freeze can hang during high GPU load (#208)
• Implement copy!() (#218)
• ROCM/Hip not downloading (?) when ]added (#230)
• mapreducedim! is not implemented for AnyROCArray Types (#234)
• Test of AMDGPU fails on 5900HX - hipErrorNoBinaryForGpu (#244)
• Don't disable ROCm external library type definitions when non-functional (#350)
• AMDGPU.jl doesn't seem to work with 7900 series GPUs (#371)
• Support for rand from Julia Base on device code (#378)
• Detect hardware queue limit and use to limit queue pool size (#403)
• AMDGPU on windows (#465)
• Rely on Atomix.jl for atomics (#547)