I have updated from Ubuntu 16.04 to 20.04. While doing so the uprade failed and I ended up doing a fresh install of 20.04. Fortunately, I have my home folder on another drive so that was saved. There was still a lot to recover. The last item I am stuck on is getting my AMD Radeon 580 GPU working. AMD does not support drivers for Ubuntu after 16.04. I tried installing OPENCL from this below page. And, I hope I installed the right software.
https://rocmdocs.amd.com/en/latest/Installation_Guide/Installation-Guide.html
While following along with the advice of this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efKjfBkjPlM
The object is to do a bit of GPU crypto mining using the xmrig program while my computer is idle.
To check for successful completion I have rocminfo and clinfo comands.
Result of rocminfo is:
joe@joeslinux:~$ /opt/rocm/bin/rocminfo
ROCk module is loaded
joe is member of video group
=====================
HSA System Attributes
=====================
Runtime Version: 1.1
System Timestamp Freq.: 1000.000000MHz
Sig. Max Wait Duration: 18446744073709551615 (0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF) (timestamp count)
Machine Model: LARGE
System Endianness: LITTLE
==========
HSA Agents
==========
*******
Agent 1
*******
Name: AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X 16-Core Processor
Marketing Name: AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X 16-Core Processor
Vendor Name: CPU
Feature: None specified
Profile: FULL_PROFILE
Float Round Mode: NEAR
Max Queue Number: 0(0x0)
Queue Min Size: 0(0x0)
Queue Max Size: 0(0x0)
Queue Type: MULTI
Node: 0
Device Type: CPU
Cache Info:
L1: 32768(0x8000) KB
Chip ID: 0(0x0)
Cacheline Size: 64(0x40)
Max Clock Freq. (MHz): 3400
BDFID: 0
Internal Node ID: 0
Compute Unit: 32
SIMDs per CU: 0
Shader Engines: 0
Shader Arrs. per Eng.: 0
WatchPts on Addr. Ranges:1
Features: None
Pool Info:
Pool 1
Segment: GLOBAL; FLAGS: KERNARG, FINE GRAINED
Size: 65778612(0x3ebb3b4) KB
Allocatable: TRUE
Alloc Granule: 4KB
Alloc Alignment: 4KB
Acessible by all: TRUE
Pool 2
Segment: GLOBAL; FLAGS: COARSE GRAINED
Size: 65778612(0x3ebb3b4) KB
Allocatable: TRUE
Alloc Granule: 4KB
Alloc Alignment: 4KB
Acessible by all: TRUE
ISA Info:
N/A
*******
Agent 2
*******
Name: gfx803
Marketing Name: Ellesmere [Radeon RX 470/480/570/570X/580/580X/590]
Vendor Name: AMD
Feature: KERNEL_DISPATCH
Profile: BASE_PROFILE
Float Round Mode: NEAR
Max Queue Number: 128(0x80)
Queue Min Size: 4096(0x1000)
Queue Max Size: 131072(0x20000)
Queue Type: MULTI
Node: 1
Device Type: GPU
Cache Info:
L1: 16(0x10) KB
Chip ID: 26591(0x67df)
Cacheline Size: 64(0x40)
Max Clock Freq. (MHz): 1340
BDFID: 16640
Internal Node ID: 1
Compute Unit: 36
SIMDs per CU: 4
Shader Engines: 4
Shader Arrs. per Eng.: 1
WatchPts on Addr. Ranges:4
Features: KERNEL_DISPATCH
Fast F16 Operation: FALSE
Wavefront Size: 64(0x40)
Workgroup Max Size: 1024(0x400)
Workgroup Max Size per Dimension:
x 1024(0x400)
y 1024(0x400)
z 1024(0x400)
Max Waves Per CU: 40(0x28)
Max Work-item Per CU: 2560(0xa00)
Grid Max Size: 4294967295(0xffffffff)
Grid Max Size per Dimension:
x 4294967295(0xffffffff)
y 4294967295(0xffffffff)
z 4294967295(0xffffffff)
Max fbarriers/Workgrp: 32
Pool Info:
Pool 1
Segment: GLOBAL; FLAGS: COARSE GRAINED
Size: 8388608(0x800000) KB
Allocatable: TRUE
Alloc Granule: 4KB
Alloc Alignment: 4KB
Acessible by all: FALSE
Pool 2
Segment: GROUP
Size: 64(0x40) KB
Allocatable: FALSE
Alloc Granule: 0KB
Alloc Alignment: 0KB
Acessible by all: FALSE
ISA Info:
ISA 1
Name: amdgcn-amd-amdhsa--gfx803
Machine Models: HSA_MACHINE_MODEL_LARGE
Profiles: HSA_PROFILE_BASE
Default Rounding Mode: NEAR
Default Rounding Mode: NEAR
Fast f16: TRUE
Workgroup Max Size: 1024(0x400)
Workgroup Max Size per Dimension:
x 1024(0x400)
y 1024(0x400)
z 1024(0x400)
Grid Max Size: 4294967295(0xffffffff)
Grid Max Size per Dimension:
x 4294967295(0xffffffff)
y 4294967295(0xffffffff)
z 4294967295(0xffffffff)
FBarrier Max Size: 32
*** Done ***
clinfo is a stranger.
Running clinfo, I got:
joe@joeslinux:~$ clinfo
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'cl::Error'
what(): clGetPlatformIDs
Aborted (core dumped)
Running it from the directory got a different error:
joe@joeslinux:~$ /opt/rocm/opencl/bin/x86_64/clinfo
ERROR: clGetPlatformIDs(-1001)
Running it with sudo from the directory got what appears to be valid output.
joe@joeslinux:~$ sudo /opt/rocm/opencl/bin/x86_64/clinfo
Number of platforms: 1
Platform Profile: FULL_PROFILE
Platform Version: OpenCL 2.1 AMD-APP (3098.0)
Platform Name: AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing
Platform Vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
Platform Extensions: cl_khr_icd cl_amd_event_callback cl_amd_offline_devices
Platform Name: AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing
Number of devices: 1
Device Type: CL_DEVICE_TYPE_GPU
Vendor ID: 1002h
Board name: Ellesmere [Radeon RX 470/480/570/570X/580/580X/590]
Device Topology: PCI[ B#65, D#0, F#0 ]
Max compute units: 36
Max work items dimensions: 3
Max work items[0]: 1024
Max work items[1]: 1024
Max work items[2]: 1024
Max work group size: 256
Preferred vector width char: 4
Preferred vector width short: 2
Preferred vector width int: 1
Preferred vector width long: 1
Preferred vector width float: 1
Preferred vector width double: 1
Native vector width char: 4
Native vector width short: 2
Native vector width int: 1
Native vector width long: 1
Native vector width float: 1
Native vector width double: 1
Max clock frequency: 1340Mhz
Address bits: 64
Max memory allocation: 7301444403
Image support: Yes
Max number of images read arguments: 128
Max number of images write arguments: 8
Max image 2D width: 16384
Max image 2D height: 16384
Max image 3D width: 2048
Max image 3D height: 2048
Max image 3D depth: 2048
Max samplers within kernel: 26591
Max size of kernel argument: 1024
Alignment (bits) of base address: 1024
Minimum alignment (bytes) for any datatype: 128
Single precision floating point capability
Denorms: No
Quiet NaNs: Yes
Round to nearest even: Yes
Round to zero: Yes
Round to +ve and infinity: Yes
IEEE754-2008 fused multiply-add: Yes
Cache type: Read/Write
Cache line size: 64
Cache size: 16384
Global memory size: 8589934592
Constant buffer size: 7301444403
Max number of constant args: 8
Local memory type: Scratchpad
Local memory size: 65536
Max pipe arguments: 16
Max pipe active reservations: 16
Max pipe packet size: 3006477107
Max global variable size: 7301444403
Max global variable preferred total size: 8589934592
Max read/write image args: 64
Max on device events: 1024
Queue on device max size: 8388608
Max on device queues: 1
Queue on device preferred size: 262144
SVM capabilities:
Coarse grain buffer: Yes
Fine grain buffer: Yes
Fine grain system: No
Atomics: No
Preferred platform atomic alignment: 0
Preferred global atomic alignment: 0
Preferred local atomic alignment: 0
Kernel Preferred work group size multiple: 64
Error correction support: 0
Unified memory for Host and Device: 0
Profiling timer resolution: 1
Device endianess: Little
Available: Yes
Compiler available: Yes
Execution capabilities:
Execute OpenCL kernels: Yes
Execute native function: No
Queue on Host properties:
Out-of-Order: No
Profiling : Yes
Queue on Device properties:
Out-of-Order: Yes
Profiling : Yes
Platform ID: 0x7fe7119b5d30
Name: gfx803
Vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
Device OpenCL C version: OpenCL C 2.0
Driver version: 3098.0 (HSA1.1,LC)
Profile: FULL_PROFILE
Version: OpenCL 1.2
Extensions: cl_khr_fp64 cl_khr_global_int32_base_atomics cl_khr_global_int32_extended_atomics cl_khr_local_int32_base_atomics cl_khr_local_int32_extended_atomics cl_khr_int64_base_atomics cl_khr_int64_extended_atomics cl_khr_3d_image_writes cl_khr_byte_addressable_store cl_khr_fp16 cl_khr_gl_sharing cl_amd_device_attribute_query cl_amd_media_ops cl_amd_media_ops2 cl_khr_image2d_from_buffer cl_khr_subgroups cl_khr_depth_images cl_amd_copy_buffer_p2p cl_amd_assembly_program
clinfo and it’s folder are owned by 1001. I know that this means there is no owner 1001.
drwxrwxr-x 5 1001 1001 4096 May 17 22:28 opencl
I changed owner to root. Then I ran the clinfo command agaion, but that made no difference.
The program which I am trying to run is xmrig.
Here is the error line:
./xmrig ...
* OPENCL disabled (failed to load OpenCL runtime)
Also note, that I have not run this xmrig mining program before, that is while on 16.04. I had used a different miner at that time.
Thank you in advance.
Best Answer
I finally found instructions that work!
I've tried to install OpenCl from numerous instructions I found all around the web. Most were an exercise in frustration. This is the one that worked for me. https://gist.github.com/kytulendu/3351b5d0b4f947e19df36b1ea3c95cbe