Benchmark Test Overview
Here are the benchmarks of the AMD Vitis™ BLAS library using the Vitis environment and comparing with the Intel Math Kernel Library. It supports hardware emulation as well as running hardware accelerators on the AMD Alveo™ U250.
1.1 Prerequisites
1.1.1 Vitis BLAS Library
- Alveo U250 installed and configured as per https://www.xilinx.com/products/boards-and-kits/alveo/u250.html#gettingStarted (when running hardware)
- XRT installed
- Vitis 2022.2 installed and configured
1.1.2 Interl MK Library
- Download and install MKL from https://software.intel.com/en-us/mkl/choose-download/linux.
1.2 Benchmark with CPU
1.2.1 Step 1:
Set up and build the environment using MKL scripts:
source <INTEL_MKL_INSTALL_DIR>/bin/mklvars.sh intel64
1.2.2 Step 2:
Run the Makefile command. For example:
cd gemm_mkl ./run_gemm_mkl.sh 16 float b
1.3 Building and Running the Kernel with Vitis
Take gemm/memKernel as an example to indicate how to build the application and kernel with the command line Makefile flow.
1.3.1 Download the Code
These BLAS benchmarks can be downloaded from the [vitis libraries](https://github.com/Xilinx/Vitis_Libraries.git) main branch.
git clone https://github.com/Xilinx/Vitis_Libraries.git cd Vitis_Libraries git checkout main cd blas
1.3.2 Set Up the Environment
Set up and build the environment using the Vitis and XRT scripts:
source <install path>/Vitis/2022.2/settings64.sh source /opt/xilinx/xrt/setup.sh
K1.3.3 Build and Run the Kernel
Run the Makefile command. For example:
make run TARGET=hw PLATFORM_REPO_PATHS=/opt/xilinx/platforms PLATFORM=xilinx_u250_xdma_201830_2
The Makefile supports various build targets including hw emulation and hardware (hw_emu, hw).
The host application can be run manually using the following pattern:
<host application> <xclbin> <argv>
For example:
build_dir.hw.xilinx_u250_xdma_201830_2/host.exe build_dir.hw.xilinx_u250_xdma_201830_2/blas.xclbin build_dir.hw.xilinx_u250_xdma_201830_2/config_info.dat