Greetings to the Debian Science community! I am Spaarsh Thakkar[1], a GSoC'25[2] contributor under the mentorship of Cordell Bloor[3](cc'd). I am an undergraduate student, pursuing a degree in Computer Science Engineering.
I’d like to briefly introduce my GSoC project and the work I plan to do. My planned work falls into two categories: 1. Packaging ROCm libraries for debian 2. Enabling ROCm support in existing debian packages As part of the second category, I plan to work on enabling ROCm support in DBCSR[4] and CP2K[5] - packages I understand are maintained by the Debian Science team. I am looking forward to collaborating with the team and welcome any guidance or suggestions. I also plan to package hipblas-common-6.4.0[6] and hipBLASLt[7] for debian and enable ROCm support in Gloo[8]. I am excited to contribute and learn through this process, and look forward to working alongside the Debian Science team to make the most of this opportunity. Regards, Spaarsh Thakkar [1]: https://salsa.debian.org/Spaarsh [2]: https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/programs/2025/projects/9s4jUjV0 [3]: https://salsa.debian.org/cgmb [4]: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/dbcsr [5]: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/cp2k [6]: https://github.com/ROCm/hipBLAS-common [7]: https://github.com/ROCm/hipBLASLt [8]: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/gloo
