[petsc-users] [PETSc-TAO] Question about memory

[Matthew Knepley]

On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 8:17 AM, Alberto Cirillo <cirilloalberto at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a question about memory management in CUDA environment, using TAO
> toolkit.
> When i create a vector with VECSEQCUSP, it's placed on GPU memory,
> transfered to CPU memory and returned back when operations are done
> (function evaluation is made by CPU).
> If I have a VECSEQCUSP vector with dimension that causes the exhaustion of
> GPU's memory, there is a possibility to swap this vector on CPU's memory in
> order to avoid "bad alloc" error?
> For example: if GPU memory is 4GB and CPU memory is 8GB and my working
> vector is 6GB, PETSc doesn't have a method to manage automatically the
> vector avoiding the crash?
>

No. We would recommend that you run in parallel on multiple machines.

   Matt


> Thanks
> Alberto
>



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