Prerequisites

This section lists the known set of hardware and software requirements to build this library

Hardware

• CPU: mainstream brand, Better if with >=4 Cores Intel Haswell based CPU
• System Memory >= 4GB (Better if >10GB for NN application over multiple GPUs)
• Hard Drive > 200GB (Better if SSD or NVMe driver for NN application over multiple GPUs)
• Minimum GPU Memory (Global) > 2GB

GPU cards supported

• dGPU: AMD R9 Fury X, R9 Fury, R9 Nano
• APU: AMD Kaveri or Carrizo

AMD Driver and Runtime

• Radeon Open Compute Kernel (ROCK) driver : https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCK-Kernel-Driver
• HSA runtime API and runtime for Boltzmann: https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCR-Runtime

System software

• Ubuntu 14.04 trusty and later
• GCC 4.6 and later
• CPP 4.6 and later (come with GCC package)
• python 2.7 and later
• python-pip
• BeautifulSoup4 (installed using python-pip)
• HCC 0.9 from here

Tools and Misc

• git 1.9 and later
• cmake 2.6 and later (2.6 and 2.8 are tested)
• firewall off
• root privilege or user account in sudo group

Ubuntu Packages

• libc6-dev-i386
• liblapack-dev
• graphicsmagick
• libblas-dev