[petsc-dev] [petsc-maint #72279] PETSc and multigpu

Victor Minden victorminden at gmail.com
Mon May 9 19:02:09 CDT 2011


I believe I've resolved this issue.

Cheers,

Victor
---
Victor L. Minden

Tufts University
School of Engineering
Class of 2012


On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 5:26 PM, Victor Minden <victorminden at gmail.com>wrote:

> Barry,
>
> I can verify this on breadboard now,
>
> with two processes, cuda
>
> minden at bb45:~/petsc-dev/src/snes/examples/tutorials$
> /home/balay/soft/mvapich2-1.5-lucid/bin/mpiexec.hydra -machinefile
> /home/balay/machinefile -n 2 ./ex47cu -da_grid_x 65535 -log_summary
> -snes_monitor -ksp_monitor -da_vec_type cusp
>   0 SNES Function norm 3.906279802209e-03
>    0 KSP Residual norm 5.994156809227e+00
>    1 KSP Residual norm 5.927247846249e-05
>  1 SNES Function norm 3.906225077938e-03
>    0 KSP Residual norm 5.993813868985e+00
>    1 KSP Residual norm 5.927575078206e-05
> terminate called after throwing an instance of
> 'thrust::system::system_error'
>  what():  invalid device pointer
> terminate called after throwing an instance of
> 'thrust::system::system_error'
>  what():  invalid device pointer
> Aborted (signal 6)
>
>
>
> Without cuda
>
> minden at bb45:~/petsc-dev/src/snes/examples/tutorials$
> /home/balay/soft/mvapich2-1.5-lucid/bin/mpiexec.hydra -machinefile
> /home/balay/machinefile -n 2 ./ex47cu -da_grid_x 65535 -log_summary
> -snes_monitor -ksp_monitor
>  0 SNES Function norm 3.906279802209e-03
>    0 KSP Residual norm 5.994156809227e+00
>    1 KSP Residual norm 3.538158441448e-04
>    2 KSP Residual norm 3.124431921666e-04
>    3 KSP Residual norm 4.109213410989e-06
>  1 SNES Function norm 7.201017610490e-04
>    0 KSP Residual norm 3.317803708316e-02
>    1 KSP Residual norm 2.447380361169e-06
>    2 KSP Residual norm 2.164193969957e-06
>    3 KSP Residual norm 2.124317398679e-08
>  2 SNES Function norm 1.719678934825e-05
>    0 KSP Residual norm 1.651586453143e-06
>    1 KSP Residual norm 2.037037536868e-08
>    2 KSP Residual norm 1.109736798274e-08
>    3 KSP Residual norm 1.857218772156e-12
>  3 SNES Function norm 1.159391068583e-09
>    0 KSP Residual norm 3.116936044619e-11
>    1 KSP Residual norm 1.366503312678e-12
>    2 KSP Residual norm 6.598477672192e-13
>    3 KSP Residual norm 5.306147277879e-17
>  4 SNES Function norm 2.202297235559e-10
>
> Note the repeated norms when using cuda.  Looks like I'll have to take
> a closer look at this.
>
> -Victor
>
> ---
> Victor L. Minden
>
> Tufts University
> School of Engineering
> Class of 2012
>
>
>
> On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> >
> > Alexander
> >
> >    Thank you for the sample code; it will be very useful.
> >
> >    We have run parallel jobs with CUDA where each node has only a single
> MPI process and uses a single GPU without the crash that you get below. I
> cannot explain why it would not work in your situation. Do you have access
> to two nodes each with a GPU so you could try that?
> >
> >   It is crashing in a delete of a
> >
> > struct  _p_PetscCUSPIndices {
> >  CUSPINTARRAYCPU indicesCPU;
> >  CUSPINTARRAYGPU indicesGPU;
> > };
> >
> > where cusp::array1d<PetscInt,cusp::device_memory>
> >
> > thus it is crashing after it has completed actually doing the
> computation. If you run with -snes_monitor -ksp_monitor with and without the
> -da_vec_type cusp on 2 processes what do you get for output in the two
> cases? I want to see if it is running correctly on two processes?
> >
> > Could the crash be due to memory corruption sometime doing the
> computation?
> >
> >
> >   Barry
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On May 5, 2011, at 3:38 AM, Alexander Grayver wrote:
> >
> >> Hello!
> >>
> >> We work with petsc-dev branch and ex47cu.cu example. Our platform is
> >> Intel Quad processor and 8 identical Tesla GPUs. CUDA 3.2 toolkit is
> >> installed.
> >> Ideally we would like to make petsc working in a multi-GPU way within
> >> just one node so that different GPUs could be attached to different
> >> processes.
> >> Since it's not possible within current PETSc implementation we created a
> >> preload library (see LD_PRELOAD for details) for CUBLAS function
> >> cublasInit().
> >> When PETSc calls this function our library gets control and we assign
> >> GPUs according to rank within MPI communicator, then we call original
> >> cublasInit().
> >> This preload library is very simple, see petsc_mgpu.c attached.
> >> This trick makes each process to have its own context and ideally all
> >> computations should be distributed over several GPUs.
> >>
> >> We managed to build petsc and example (see makefile attached) and we
> >> tested it as follows:
> >>
> >> [agraiver at tesla-cmc new]$ ./lapexp -da_grid_x 65535 -info >
> cpu_1process.out
> >> [agraiver at tesla-cmc new]$ mpirun -np 2 ./lapexp -da_grid_x 65535 -info
> >
> >> cpu_2processes.out
> >> [agraiver at tesla-cmc new]$ ./lapexp -da_grid_x 65535 -da_vec_type cusp
> >> -info > gpu_1process.out
> >> [agraiver at tesla-cmc new]$ mpirun -np 2 ./lapexp -da_grid_x 65535
> >> -da_vec_type cusp -info > gpu_2processes.out
> >>
> >> Everything except last configuration works well. The last one crashes
> >> with the following exception and callstack:
> >> terminate called after throwing an instance of
> >> 'thrust::system::system_error'
> >>   what():  invalid device pointer
> >> [tesla-cmc:15549] *** Process received signal ***
> >> [tesla-cmc:15549] Signal: Aborted (6)
> >> [tesla-cmc:15549] Signal code:  (-6)
> >> [tesla-cmc:15549] [ 0] /lib64/libpthread.so.0() [0x3de540eeb0]
> >> [tesla-cmc:15549] [ 1] /lib64/libc.so.6(gsignal+0x35) [0x3de50330c5]
> >> [tesla-cmc:15549] [ 2] /lib64/libc.so.6(abort+0x186) [0x3de5034a76]
> >> [tesla-cmc:15549] [ 3]
> >>
> /opt/llvm/dragonegg/lib64/libstdc++.so.6(_ZN9__gnu_cxx27__verbose_terminate_handlerEv+0x11d)
> >> [0x7f0d3530b95d]
> >> [tesla-cmc:15549] [ 4]
> >> /opt/llvm/dragonegg/lib64/libstdc++.so.6(+0xb7b76) [0x7f0d35309b76]
> >> [tesla-cmc:15549] [ 5]
> >> /opt/llvm/dragonegg/lib64/libstdc++.so.6(+0xb7ba3) [0x7f0d35309ba3]
> >> [tesla-cmc:15549] [ 6]
> >> /opt/llvm/dragonegg/lib64/libstdc++.so.6(+0xb7cae) [0x7f0d35309cae]
> >> [tesla-cmc:15549] [ 7]
> >>
> ./lapexp(_ZN6thrust6detail6device4cuda4freeILj0EEEvNS_10device_ptrIvEE+0x69)
> >> [0x426320]
> >> [tesla-cmc:15549] [ 8]
> >>
> ./lapexp(_ZN6thrust6detail6device8dispatch4freeILj0EEEvNS_10device_ptrIvEENS0_21cuda_device_space_tagE+0x2b)
> >> [0x4258b2]
> >> [tesla-cmc:15549] [ 9]
> >> ./lapexp(_ZN6thrust11device_freeENS_10device_ptrIvEE+0x2f) [0x424f78]
> >> [tesla-cmc:15549] [10]
> >>
> /opt/openmpi_gcc-1.4.3/lib/libpetsc.so(_ZN6thrust23device_malloc_allocatorIiE10deallocateENS_10device_ptrIiEEm+0x33)
> >> [0x7f0d36aeacff]
> >> [tesla-cmc:15549] [11]
> >>
> /opt/openmpi_gcc-1.4.3/lib/libpetsc.so(_ZN6thrust6detail18contiguous_storageIiNS_23device_malloc_allocatorIiEEE10deallocateEv+0x6e)
> >> [0x7f0d36ae8e78]
> >> [tesla-cmc:15549] [12]
> >>
> /opt/openmpi_gcc-1.4.3/lib/libpetsc.so(_ZN6thrust6detail18contiguous_storageIiNS_23device_malloc_allocatorIiEEED1Ev+0x19)
> >> [0x7f0d36ae75f7]
> >> [tesla-cmc:15549] [13]
> >>
> /opt/openmpi_gcc-1.4.3/lib/libpetsc.so(_ZN6thrust6detail11vector_baseIiNS_23device_malloc_allocatorIiEEED1Ev+0x52)
> >> [0x7f0d36ae65f4]
> >> [tesla-cmc:15549] [14]
> >>
> /opt/openmpi_gcc-1.4.3/lib/libpetsc.so(_ZN4cusp7array1dIiN6thrust6detail21cuda_device_space_tagEED1Ev+0x18)
> >> [0x7f0d36ae5c2e]
> >> [tesla-cmc:15549] [15]
> >>
> /opt/openmpi_gcc-1.4.3/lib/libpetsc.so(_ZN19_p_PetscCUSPIndicesD1Ev+0x1d)
> [0x7f0d3751e45f]
> >> [tesla-cmc:15549] [16]
> >> /opt/openmpi_gcc-1.4.3/lib/libpetsc.so(PetscCUSPIndicesDestroy+0x20f)
> >> [0x7f0d3750c840]
> >> [tesla-cmc:15549] [17]
> >> /opt/openmpi_gcc-1.4.3/lib/libpetsc.so(VecScatterDestroy_PtoP+0x1bc8)
> >> [0x7f0d375af8af]
> >> [tesla-cmc:15549] [18]
> >> /opt/openmpi_gcc-1.4.3/lib/libpetsc.so(VecScatterDestroy+0x586)
> >> [0x7f0d375e9ddf]
> >> [tesla-cmc:15549] [19]
> >> /opt/openmpi_gcc-1.4.3/lib/libpetsc.so(MatDestroy_MPIAIJ+0x49f)
> >> [0x7f0d37191d24]
> >> [tesla-cmc:15549] [20]
> >> /opt/openmpi_gcc-1.4.3/lib/libpetsc.so(MatDestroy+0x546)
> [0x7f0d370d54fe]
> >> [tesla-cmc:15549] [21]
> >> /opt/openmpi_gcc-1.4.3/lib/libpetsc.so(SNESReset+0x5d1) [0x7f0d3746fac3]
> >> [tesla-cmc:15549] [22]
> >> /opt/openmpi_gcc-1.4.3/lib/libpetsc.so(SNESDestroy+0x4b8)
> [0x7f0d37470210]
> >> [tesla-cmc:15549] [23] ./lapexp(main+0x5ed) [0x420745]
> >>
> >> I've sent all detailed output files for different execution
> >> configuration listed above as well as configure.log and make.log to
> >> petsc-maint at mcs.anl.gov hoping that someone could recognize the
> problem.
> >> Now we have one node with multi-GPU, but I'm also wondering if someone
> >> really tested usage of GPU functionality over several nodes with one GPU
> >> each?
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Alexander
> >>
> >> <petsc_mgpu.c><makefile.txt><configure.log>
> >
> >
>
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