ARK v0.6.0 Release Plan

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Timeline

Expected Release Date: Jan. 16th, 2024 Mar. 31st, 2024

Work Items (TBU)

Performance

1. • Computation Kernel: improved vectorization (Improve vectorization of kernels #189)
2. • Communication Kernel: improve performance (Optimize communication #190)

CI

1. • Unit Tests: revise Python unit tests & add to the Azure pipeline
2. • Unit Tests: add ROCm Azure pipelines
3. • Unit Tests: add ROCm 6.0 CI (Add ROCm 6.0 CI #188)
4. • Code Coverage: add code coverage for Python code

Bug Fix

1. • CUTLASS: fix the patch file (Fix CUTLASS patch #187)
2. • OpGraph: a bug fix (Fix an OpGraph bug #192)