[question] Support for a new backend
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- C++
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Description
Currently INQ can run on Nvidia GPUs through CUDA backend.
What would be the design requirements required for supporting a new backend, say Intel's SYCL or AMD's HIP?
Would migrating/porting the CUDA code to SYCL/HIP and enabling support for a new configuration in the build be sufficient? If so, what files/modules in INQ and the external libraries be supported?
Otherwise, please suggest the expected requirements for enabling this feature.
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Research direction
The issue names no files, tests, or entry points. Start by mapping the existing CUDA backend and its external-library interfaces, then determine which modules and build configuration support a new backend. Done would be a documented, agreed set of design and implementation requirements, but the old unanswered discussion makes the scope unresolved.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- hpc
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 20/100