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# TransferBench
TransferBench is a simple utility capable of benchmarking simultaneous copies between user-specified devices (CPUs/GPUs).
TransferBench is a simple utility capable of benchmarking simultaneous copies between user-specified
CPU and GPU devices.
Documentation for TransferBench is available at
[https://rocm.docs.amd.com/projects/TransferBench/en/latest/index.html](https://rocm.docs.amd.com/projects/TransferBench/en/latest/index.html).
## Requirements
1. ROCm stack installed on the system (HIP runtime)
2. libnuma installed on system
* You must have a ROCm stack installed on your system (HIP runtime)
* You must have `libnuma` installed on your system
## Documentation
Run the steps below to build documentation locally.
To build documentation locally, use the following code:
```
```shell
cd docs
pip3 install -r .sphinx/requirements.txt
......@@ -19,45 +23,54 @@ pip3 install -r .sphinx/requirements.txt
python3 -m sphinx -T -E -b html -d _build/doctrees -D language=en . _build/html
```
## Building
To build TransferBench using Makefile:
## Building TransferBench
You can build TransferBench using Makefile or CMake.
* Makefile:
```shell
$ make
make
```
To build TransferBench using cmake:
* CMake:
```shell
$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ CXX=/opt/rocm/bin/hipcc cmake ..
$ make
mkdir build
cd build
CXX=/opt/rocm/bin/hipcc cmake ..
make
```
If ROCm is installed in a folder other than `/opt/rocm/`, set ROCM_PATH appropriately
If ROCm is not installed in `/opt/rocm/`, you must set `ROCM_PATH` to the correct location.
## NVIDIA platform support
TransferBench may also be built to run on NVIDIA platforms either via HIP, or native nvcc
You can build TransferBench to run on NVIDIA platforms via HIP or native NVCC.
To build with HIP for NVIDIA (requires HIP-compatible CUDA version installed e.g. CUDA 11.5):
```
CUDA_PATH=<path_to_CUDA> HIP_PLATFORM=nvidia make`
```
Use the following code to build with HIP for NVIDIA (note that you must have a HIP-compatible CUDA
version installed, e.g., CUDA 11.5):
To build with native nvcc: (Builds TransferBenchCuda)
```shell
CUDA_PATH=<path_to_CUDA> HIP_PLATFORM=nvidia make`
```
make
Use the following code to build with native NVCC (builds `TransferBenchCuda`):
```shell
make
```
## Hints and suggestions
- Running TransferBench with no arguments will display usage instructions and detected topology information
- There are several preset configurations that can be used instead of a configuration file
including:
- p2p - Peer to peer benchmark test
- sweep - Sweep across possible sets of Transfers
- rsweep - Random sweep across possible sets of Transfers
- When using the same GPU executor in multiple simultaneous Transfers, performance may be
serialized due to the maximum number of hardware queues available.
- The number of maximum hardware queues can be adjusted via GPU_MAX_HW_QUEUES
- Alternatively, running in single stream mode (USE_SINGLE_STREAM=1) may avoid this issue
by launching all Transfers on a single stream instead of individual streams
## Things to note
* Running TransferBench with no arguments displays usage instructions and detected topology
information
* You can use several preset configurations instead of a configuration file:
* `p2p`: Peer-to-peer benchmark test
* `sweep`: Sweep across possible sets of transfers
* `rsweep`: Random sweep across possible sets of transfers
* When using the same GPU executor in multiple simultaneous transfers, performance may be
serialized due to the maximum number of hardware queues available
* The number of maximum hardware queues can be adjusted via `GPU_MAX_HW_QUEUES`
* Alternatively, running in single-stream mode (`USE_SINGLE_STREAM`=1) may avoid this issue
by launching all transfers on a single stream, rather than on individual streams
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