[Debian-pan-maintainers] Push the add of ROCm and Pocl autopkgtest for Examl

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Clément,

[including Debian Med list since this is where examl might be known best]

Am Fri, Jun 20, 2025 at 03:57:11PM +0200 schrieb LONGEAC Clement:
> I am in an internship at Synchrotron-Soleil , my directors are Frederic-Emmanuel PICCA and Emmanuel FARHI. I implemented Rocm and Pocl autopkgtest for architecture amd64 and arm64. And I would like to push it. 
> I implemented autopktests for rocm and pocl on the package named Examl on local. The aim is to have an overview of code compatibility with various AMD graphics cards, the codes on all the AMD boards available for CI rocm for GPU and Pocl for CPU. Our purpose is to tests Opencl . 

Thanks a lot for working on this package.
 
> I searched in the examl package, apparently there would be opencl . It doesn't use it directly but it does trought MPI : 
> 
> In the debtree Opencl is used more or less towards the end of the tree ( pdf ) 
> 
> On the other hand there is no sign of opencl tests played explicitly. These are MPI tests, except that opencl is one of the dependencies of MPI, to the 4th degree in fact. 
> 
> The following tests are ran , testing MPI . 
> 
> Tests run 
> + examl -t testData/49.tree -m GAMMA -s 49.unpartitioned.binary -n T1 
> Run MPI on 64 of 128 available processors 
> Use /usr/lib/examl/bin/examl-avx2 and 64 processors 
> We look forward to hearing from you ! 
> 
> Would it be possible to provide a data set that tests opencl? 

I think the best thing you can do is contacting the authors on github.
I once had the pleasure to learn they are responding quickly and helpful. 

BTW, it would be great if you could push anything that might enhance the
package to Salsa.  If you need push permissions please let me know you
Salsa login.

Thanks again
   Andreas.

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