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Investigate using MIOpen's immediate mode for conv algorithm search

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Description

As described in https://rocm.docs.amd.com/projects/MIOpen/en/latest/find_and_immediate.html#immediate-mode-api. The main benefits would be enabling persistent on-disk caching for users while removing the somewhat tricky algorithm cache handling code on the Julia side. The main drawback would be not being able to control how the caching is done, but on balance I think the benefits outweigh this bit of flexibility. Notably, cuDNN does not support this kind of transparent caching (ref. https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/issues/88410) and currently requires manual caching on the Julia side (ref. https://github.com/JuliaGPU/CUDA.jl/issues/1947).

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Research direction

Start by reading MIOpen's immediate mode API documentation and locating the Julia-side algorithm cache handling code mentioned in the issue. Compare the current search and caching behavior with immediate mode, and consider the work complete when persistent on-disk caching is enabled without the existing cache handling complexity.

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Assessment

Tech stack
julia
Domain
backend, performance
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
30/100

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