Any news on the clMagma

[Jinchuan Tang]

Dear all,

Is there any update since clMagma 1.3 release? Thanks! I saw once that Mark is preparing a new release in the old forum in 2016 but could not find one. 

[Natalie Beams]

Sorry, clMagma is not under active development. There are no planned future releases.

-- Natalie

[Ahmad Abdelfattah]

clMagma was developed for pre-ROCm AMD GPUs. The “main” MAGMA library (https://icl.utk.edu/magma/) now supports both NVIDIA and AMD GPUs through the CUDA and HIP backends, respectively. 

Ahmad

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[Jinchuan Tang]

Dear Natalie and Ahmad,

Is there a way to get the 1.4 version as shown in the poster of 2017 ( SC17-MAGMA  ). I want to revive this lib for some of the functions are good enough for apple silicon and other OpenCL based GPUs for mobile computing as well as teaching purpose on nb based decompositions.

Also I found it to be quiet stable for compile with few modifications on the files in the recent operating systems such as MacOS/Windows/Ubuntu.（ Release clMagma_next · octaveoclx/clMagma_next  ）

Thank you very much and have a nice day!

Best wishes,

Jinchuan Tang

[Mark Gates]

Hi Jinchuan,

There's an old clMAGMA repo at https://bitbucket.org/icl/clmagma_old_hg/src/master/

I don't know anything about its status, whether it is different than the 1.3 release, was close to a new release when it was abandoned, or anything.

It relies on clBLAS, which was developed by AMD but was likewise abandoned in favor of the ROCm platform.

Mark

[Jinchuan Tang]

Dear Mark,

It is so nice to hear from you. Thank you very much for the bitbucket link! I will do a compare and update the sources on github.

Now I am using CLBLAST as seen from my fork link. 

My students and I are also helping CLBLAST to tune on many modern hardware (dozens) including Adreno, Mali,  NV 40/50 series and RDNAs.

Meanwhile, if i am getting more familiar with the clmagma. I guess I will ask people to tune the panel/block sizes.

Also I was trying to ask the author of CLBLAST to add the support of batch trsm for it only has a single matrix version inspired by magma 2.2. https://github.com/CNugteren/CLBlast/issues/663

Best wishes,

Jinchuan

[Jinchuan Tang]

Also, after Meld App comparison, there is no luck with the bitbucket link. It is old (than 1.3?) and even has many missing kernel files.

On Wednesday, 6 May 2026 at 09:39:50 UTC+8 mga...@icl.utk.edu wrote: