[Bug]: rocblas taking over an hour to install, roclas-bench unavailable after installation

[obhalerao97]

Describe the bug

Issue 1: Installing rocblas is taking over an hour on MI300. When running ./install -d, it gets stuck here for over an hour.

Issue 2: Once installation is complete and when I run rocBLAS/scripts/performance/shakespeare.sh, error thrown: ./rocblas-bench: No such file or directory
I have tried to locate rocblas-bench in build/release/clients/staging/, but after installation this is what the folder looks like:

To Reproduce

1. Pull container: https://github.com/powderluv/vllm-docs
2. exec into container
3. git clone https://github.com/ROCm/rocBLAS.git
4. cd rocBLAS
5. ./install.sh -d

Tried running it without the container too, but installation fails.

Issue: rocblas-bench not found anywhere, and it takes over an hour to install.

Expected behavior

1. I expected the installation to take less than an hour
2. I expected to find the rocblas-bench binary in order to run shakespeare.sh

Environment

Hardware used: AMD MI300 8 GPUS

Software	version
rocm-core	6.2.0.60200-66~20.04
rocblas	4.2.0.60200-66~20.04

environment.txt

[TorreZuk]

Hopefully we can solve your problem, but just need to clarify your goals.
Do you really need to build from source, and can't install the pre-built packages?
sudo apt install rocblas
sudo apt install rocblas-clients
See some more details for what you are doing:
https://rocm.docs.amd.com/projects/rocBLAS/en/latest/install/Linux_Install_Guide.html#linux-install

If you need to build and install from source you need the -c for the clients including rocblas-bench.
Use -a gfx942 to cut your rebuild time down significantly if you only want to run on the node for which you provided details.
./install.sh -d -c -a gfx942

[obhalerao97]

@TorreZuk , thanks for your prompt response! My main goal is to be able to do: rocblas-bench -f gemm -r s -m 4000 -n 4000 -k 4000 --lda 4000 --ldb 4000 --ldc 4000 --transposeA N \ --transposeB T

with varying precisions and gemm sizes. But it seems like I'm unable to install rocblas-bench in any way.

[TorreZuk]

Try the command I mention and let us know how it goes. It will build rocblas-bench:
./install.sh -d -c -a gfx942

[TorreZuk]

Provided information to install pre-built packages and also way to build with significantly lower compute load so I will close issue later this week unless reporter provides feedback.