ROCm Compute Profiler is a system performance profiling tool for machine learning/HPC workloads running on AMD MI GPUs. The tool presently targets usage on MI100, MI200, MI300, and MI350 series accelerators.

• For more information on available features, installation steps, and workload profiling and analysis, please refer to the online documentation.

• ROCm Compute Profiler is an AMD open source tool that is part of the ROCm software stack. We welcome contributions and feedback from the community. Please see the CONTRIBUTING.md file for additional details on our contribution process.

• Licensing information can be found in the LICENSE file.

ROCm Compute Profiler is now included in the rocm-systems super-repo. The latest sources are in the develop branch. You can find particular releases in the release/rocm-rel-X.Y branch for the particular release you're looking for.

Being in the super-repo, if you only want to pull the source for a particular project, do a sparse checkout:

git clone --no-checkout --filter=blob:none https://github.com/ROCm/rocm-systems.git
cd rocm-systems
git sparse-checkout init --cone
git sparse-checkout set projects/rocprofiler-compute
git checkout develop

cd projects/rocprofiler-compute

# Initialize vendored dependencies
git submodule update --init --recursive -- src/vendored/

python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt

Note: When working from source, vendored dependencies (like PyYAML) are included as git submodules. If you see import errors about missing vendored modules, run git submodule update --init --recursive -- src/vendored/.

To install development tools (linter, pre-commit hooks, YAML utilities), run:

python3 -m pip install -r requirements-development.txt

Populate the variable in docker/docker-compose.customrocmtest.yml. Populate the <rocm_build_image> variable in docker/Dockerfile.customrocmtest based on latest ROCm CI build information.

To quickly get the environment (bash shell) for building and testing, run the following commands:

• cd docker
• If the docker image is not available on the machine, then build the image, otherwise skip this step: docker compose -f docker-compose.customrocmtest.yml build
• Launch the container, and check the name of the container: docker compose -f docker-compose.customrocmtest.yml up --force-recreate -d
• Run bash shell on the launched container: docker exec -it <container_name> bash
• If testing is done, kill the container: docker container kill <container_name>

Inside the docker container, clean, build, then install the project with tests enabled:

rm -rf build install && cmake -B build -D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=install -D ENABLE_TESTS=ON -D INSTALL_TESTS=ON -D ENABLE_COVERAGE=ON -S . && cmake --build build --target install --parallel 8

Common CMake options:

• -D ENABLE_TESTS=ON - Enable building test executables
• -D INSTALL_TESTS=ON - Install test files and test suite
• -D ENABLE_COVERAGE=ON - Enable code coverage reporting
• -D TEST_FROM_INSTALL=ON - Enable testing from installation directory instead of build directory
• -D SKIP_NATIVE_TOOL_BUILD=ON - Skip building the native profiling tool (enables runtime compilation instead), useful when rocprofiler-sdk is not available during build time

Note that per the above command, build assets will be stored under build directory and installed assets will be stored under install directory.

Then, to run the automated test suite, run the following commands:

cd build
ctest

For manual testing, you can find the executable at install/bin/rocprof-compute

This method uses the cmake target inside a RHEL 8 docker container with Python3.11 installed.

To create a standalone binary, run the following commands:

• cd docker
• Optionally, provide --build-arg STANDALONEBINARY_EXTRACT_DIR=/<path> option in build container command to change the absolute path where standalone binary will extract its contents. This option should be specified after the build keyword. Default is /tmp.
• docker compose -f docker-compose.standalone.yml build (build container command)
• docker compose -f docker-compose.standalone.yml up --force-recreate -d && docker attach docker-standalone-1 (run container and attach to see its output)

NOTE: Python3.11 should be installed on the system to build the standalone binary

To create a standalone binary, run the following commands:

• Optionally, provide -D STANDALONEBINARY_EXTRACT_DIR=/<path> option in cmake config. command to change the absolute path where standalone binary will extract its contents. Default is /tmp.
• cmake -B build -D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=install -D STANDALONEBINARY=ON -S . (cmake config. command)
• cmake --build build --target install --parallel 8 (run cmake install target)

To build the binary we follow these steps:

• Use RHEL 8.10 docker image as the base image (only in docker method)
• Install python3.11
• Install python dependencies
• Call the install cmake target with STANDALONEBINARY=ON cmake args. which will use Nuitka to build the standalone binary

You should find the rocprof-compute.bin standalone binary inside the install/libexec/rocprofiler-compute/rocprof-compute.bin folder in the root directory of the project.

• Nuitka is used for compiling the python interpreter, python dependencies and source code into C and then to a executable. The whole process takes about 30 minutes. The self-extracting standalone binary itself is approximately 150 MB in size, however, the total size of the extracted compiled artifacts is approximately 650 MB.

• By default, standalone binary extracts its contents to a directory rocprof_compute_standalonebinary_<pid> under /tmp parent directory upon execution, however, the parent directory can be configured as explained in standalone binary creation section.

• When using docker method, since RHEL 8 ships with glibc version 2.28, this standalone binary can only be run on environment with glibc version greater than or equal to 2.28. glibc version can be checked using ldd --version command.

• If not using docker, the minimum glibc version is determined by the OS where cmake is run.

• When using docker, native counter collection tool is not compiled due to unavailability of rocprofiler-sdk. Instead, native counter collection tool will be runtime compiled based on the environment where the binary is running.

Create standalone binary with tests enabled, then run the tests:

• cmake -B build -D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=install -D ENABLE_TESTS=ON -D INSTALL_TESTS=ON -D STANDALONEBINARY=ON -S .
• cmake --build build --target install --parallel 8
• cd install/libexec/rocprofiler-compute
• ctest

This software can be cited using a Zenodo DOI reference. A BibTex style reference is provided below for convenience:

@misc{xiaomin_lu_2022_7314631
  author       = {Xiaomin Lu and
                  Cole Ramos and
                  Fei Zheng and
                  Karl W. Schulz and
                  Jose Santos and
                  Keith Lowery and
                  Nicholas Curtis and
                  Cristian Di Pietrantonio},
  title        = {rocprofiler-compute},
  url          = {https://github.com/ROCm/rocm-systems/blob/develop/projects/rocprofiler-compute}
}