diff --git a/src/backend/tests/kernelprog/ROC_M/main_hip.c b/src/backend/tests/kernelprog/ROC_M/main_hip.c
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+#include<stdio.h>
+#include <hip/hiprtc.h>
+#include<stddef.h>
+#include <hip/hip_runtime.h>
+#include <string.h>
+#include<stdlib.h>
+
+#define HIP_CHECK(condition)                                                             \
+{                                                                                        \
+    const hipError_t error = condition;                                                  \
+    if (error != hipSuccess)                                                             \
+    {                                                                                    \
+        fprintf(stderr, "An error encountered: \"%s\" at %s:%d\n",                       \
+                hipGetErrorString(error), __FILE__, __LINE__);                           \
+        exit(EXIT_FAILURE);                                                              \
+    }                                                                                    \
+}
+
+#define CHECK_RET_CODE(call, ret_code)                                                             \
+  {                                                                                                \
+    if ((call) != ret_code) {                                                                      \
+      printf("Failed in call: %s", #call ) ;                                                                                                                \
+    }                                                                                              \
+  }
+  #define HIPRTC_CHECK(call) CHECK_RET_CODE(call, HIPRTC_SUCCESS)
+
+ static char * arch_name(hipDeviceProp_t props){    
+    if(props.gcnArchName[0])
+    {
+         static char *new_str = NULL ;
+        if((new_str = (char *)malloc(strlen("--gpu-architecture=") + strlen(props.gcnArchName) + 1)) != NULL){
+            new_str[0] = '\0';
+            strcat(new_str, "--gpu-architecture=");
+            strcat(new_str, props.gcnArchName);
+            
+            return new_str ; 
+        }
+
+        else{
+            printf( "malloc failed") ;
+            return new_str; 
+        }
+        
+    }
+
+}
+
+char str[] = " extern \"C\"  __global__ void saxpy_kernel(const float a, const float * d_x, float * d_y, const unsigned int size)\n"
+"{\n"
+"    const unsigned int global_idx = blockIdx.x * blockDim.x + threadIdx.x;\n"
+"    if(global_idx < size)\n"
+"    {\n"
+"        d_y[global_idx] = a * d_x[global_idx] + d_y[global_idx];\n"
+"    }\n"
+"}";
+
+int ceiling_div(int size, int block_size){
+    // return (size/block_size) ;
+    return (size + block_size - 1) / block_size;
+}
+
+int main(){
+   // program to be compiled in runtime.
+    hiprtcProgram prog;
+
+    // create program.
+     char * const_str = str ;
+  hiprtcResult result = hiprtcCreateProgram(&prog,
+                        const_str,
+                        "saxpy_kernel.c",
+                        0,
+                        NULL,
+                        NULL
+                        );
+    if(result!= HIPRTC_SUCCESS){
+        printf("FAILED. hiprtcCreateProgram");
+    }
+
+    printf("created program") ;
+
+    // Get device properties from the first device available.
+    hipDeviceProp_t props;
+    unsigned int device_id = 0;
+    HIP_CHECK(hipGetDeviceProperties(&props, device_id)); 
+    const char * arch = arch_name(props) ;
+    printf("\n%s",arch);
+    result = hiprtcCompileProgram(prog,1, &arch )  ;
+    // free(arch);
+    if(result!= HIPRTC_SUCCESS){
+        printf("FAILED hiprtcCompileProgram.");
+    }
+
+    // Get the size of the log (possibly) generated during compilation.
+    size_t log_size;
+    HIPRTC_CHECK( hiprtcGetProgramLogSize(prog, &log_size));
+
+    if(log_size){
+        char log[log_size];
+        for(int i = 0; i<log_size; i++ ){
+            log[i] = '\0';
+        }
+        hiprtcGetProgramLog(prog, &log[0]);
+        printf("this is log %s\n",log);    
+    }
+    size_t code_size;
+    HIPRTC_CHECK(hiprtcGetCodeSize(prog, &code_size));
+    
+    //store the compiled binary ; in a character array 
+    char code[code_size] ;
+    memset(code, '\0', code_size);
+    HIPRTC_CHECK(hiprtcGetCode(prog, code));
+
+    //Destroy program object.
+    HIPRTC_CHECK(hiprtcDestroyProgram(&prog));
+
+    //Now we launch the kernel on the device.
+
+    //total number of float elements in each device vector;
+    unsigned int size = 4096;
+
+    //total number of bytes to allocate for each device vector;
+    size_t size_bytes = size * sizeof(float);
+
+    //Number of threads per kernel block.
+    unsigned int block_size = 128 ;
+
+    //number of blocks per kernel grid, calculated as ceil (size/block_size)
+    unsigned int grid_size = ceiling_div(size, block_size);
+    printf("\n%u\n\n",grid_size) ;
+
+    //constant value "a" to be used in the expression sequence 1,2,3,4.....
+
+
+    float x[size];
+    float y[size];
+    memset(x, 0.0f, size);
+
+    for(int i = 0; i<size; i++){
+             float j =  i ;
+            x[i] = j + 1.f ;
+        }
+
+    memset(y, 0.0f, size);
+    for(int i = 0; i<size; i++){
+            y[i] = i + 1.f ;
+            y[i] = y[i]*2;
+        }
+
+    // Allocate vectors in device and copy from host to device memory.
+    float * d_x ;
+    float * d_y ;
+    HIP_CHECK(hipMalloc(&d_x, size_bytes));
+    HIP_CHECK(hipMalloc(&d_y, size_bytes));
+    HIP_CHECK(hipMemcpy(d_x, x, size_bytes, hipMemcpyHostToDevice ));
+    HIP_CHECK(hipMemcpy(d_y, y, size_bytes, hipMemcpyHostToDevice));
+    
+    hipModule_t module;
+    hipModuleLoadData(&module, code) ;
+
+
+    // Load the HIP module corresponding to the compiled binary into the current context.
+    hipFunction_t kernel;
+    HIP_CHECK(hipModuleGetFunction(&kernel, module, "saxpy_kernel"));
+
+    //create and fill array with kernel arguments.
+    const float a = 5.1f;
+    size_t offset = 0;
+    char args[256] ;
+
+    *((float *) (&args[offset])) = a;
+    offset += sizeof(a);
+    offset += 4; // aligning fix for CUDA executions
+
+    *((float **) (&args[offset])) = d_x ; 
+    offset += sizeof(d_x);
+    *((float **) (&args[offset])) = d_y ;
+    offset += sizeof(d_y);
+    *((uint *) (&args[offset])) = size ; 
+    offset += sizeof(size);
+
+        // Create array with kernel arguments and its size.
+    void* config[] = {HIP_LAUNCH_PARAM_BUFFER_POINTER,
+                      args,
+                      HIP_LAUNCH_PARAM_BUFFER_SIZE,
+                      &offset,
+                      HIP_LAUNCH_PARAM_END};
+    
+    printf("Calculating y[i] = a * x[i] + y[i] over %d\n", size) ;
+    //HIP_CHECK(hipModuleLaunchKernel(kernel,
+    HIP_CHECK(hipModuleLaunchKernel(kernel,
+                                    grid_size,
+                                    1,
+                                    1,
+                                    block_size,
+                                    1,
+                                    1,
+                                    0,
+                                    NULL,
+                                    NULL,
+                                    (void**)&config));
+
+    // Check if the kernel launch was successful.
+    HIP_CHECK(hipGetLastError());
+
+    // Copy results from device to host.
+    //HIP_CHECK(hipMemcpy(y.data(), d_y, size_bytes, hipMemcpyDeviceToHost));
+    hipMemcpy(y, d_y, size_bytes, hipMemcpyDeviceToHost);
+
+    // Free device memory.
+    HIP_CHECK(hipFree(d_y));
+    HIP_CHECK(hipFree(d_x)) ;
+    // Unload module.
+    HIP_CHECK(hipModuleUnload(module));
+    // Print the first few elements of the results for validation.
+    size_t elements_to_print = 10;
+    for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++){
+        printf("%f\n",y[i]) ;
+    }
+
+    return 0;
+    }
+      
+