> On Jan 20, 2022, at 5:24 PM, Rohan Yadav <roh...@alumni.cmu.edu> wrote:
>
> Thanks barry, this is what I was looking for. However, it doesn't seem to be
> working for me (the reported times are significantly different still with
> -log_view on and off).
I think this is because your second loop will overlap the additional kernel
launches with the GPU computations without -log_view but will not overlap with
the -log_view (since -log_view forces each MatMult to end before the next one
can be launched by the CPU). If you put the PetscLogGpuTimeBegin/End within the
loop then the -log_view should have much less effect. But I am not sure exactly
what will happen with them inside the loop and with -log_view since there will
be "extra" PetscLogGpuTimeEnd synchronization points; I don't think they will
matter but I cannot say for sure. Like I said, tricky.
> Here is my exact timing code:
> ```
> double avgTime = 0.0;
> {
> PetscLogDouble start, end;
> PetscLogGpuTimeBegin();
> for (int i = 0; i < warmup; i++) {
> MatMult(A, x, y);
> }
> PetscLogGpuTimeEnd();
> PetscLogGpuTimeBegin();
> PetscTime(&start);
> for (int i = 0; i < niter; i++) {
> MatMult(A, x, y);
> }
> PetscLogGpuTimeEnd();
> PetscTime(&end);
> auto sec = end - start;
> avgTime = double(sec) / double(niter);
> }
> ```
> I'm measuring the time for a group of MatMult's as you suggested (with some
> warmup iterations).
>
> Rohan
>
> On Thu, Jan 20, 2022 at 1:42 PM Barry Smith <bsm...@petsc.dev
> <mailto:bsm...@petsc.dev>> wrote:
>
> Some operations on the GPU are asynchronous, the CPU passes the kernel
> launch to the GPU and then immediately returns ready to do something else
> before the kernel is completed (or even started). Some like VecDot() where
> the result is stored in a CPU memory have to block until the kernel is
> complete and the result copied up to the CPU.
>
> -log_view forces a the calls to PetscLogGpuTimeEnd() which has (for CUDA)
>
> cerr =
> cudaEventRecord(petsc_gputimer_end,PetscDefaultCudaStream);CHKERRCUDA(cerr);
> cerr = cudaEventSynchronize(petsc_gputimer_end);CHKERRCUDA(cerr);
> cerr =
> cudaEventElapsedTime(>ime,petsc_gputimer_begin,petsc_gputimer_end);CHKERRCUDA(cerr);
> petsc_gtime += (PetscLogDouble)gtime/1000.0; /* convert milliseconds to
> seconds */
>
> which essentially causes the CPU to wait until the kernel is complete, hence
> your time with -log_view captures the full time to run the kernel.
>
> So timing with GPUs can be a tricky business (when do you want to block and
> when do you not?) For your loop, you may want to use
>
> PetscLogGpuTimeBegin()
>> start = now()
>>
>> for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
>> MatMult(A, x, y);
>> }
> PetscLogGpuTimeEnd()
>> end = now()
>> print(end - start / 10)
>> ```
>
>
> Now after the loop it will wait until all the multiplies are completely done;
> giving a better view of the time it takes. If you did
>
>
>> start = now()
>>
>> for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
> PetscLogGpuTimeBegin()
>> MatMult(A, x, y);
> PetscLogGpuTimeEnd()
>> }
>> end = now()
>> print(end - start / 10)
>> ```
>
> You would wait a longer time because the CPU could not tell the GPU about the
> second kernel launch until the first kernel is completely done. Hence there
> would be no overlap of GPU computation and CPU kernel launches (which take a
> long time).
>
> IMHO timing individual operations like a single MatMult() on GPUs only has a
> certain level of usefulness since you slow down the computation (by removing
> the asynchronous nature between the GPU and CPU) in order to get accurate
> times. It is better to time something like a complete line solver, nonlinear
> solve etc and not log at a finer granularity.
>
> Barry
>
>
>
>
>
>> On Jan 20, 2022, at 4:07 PM, Rohan Yadav <roh...@alumni.cmu.edu
>> <mailto:roh...@alumni.cmu.edu>> wrote:
>>
>> Another small question -- I'm a little confused around timing GPU codes with
>> PETSc. I have a code that looks like:
>> ```
>> start = now()
>> for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
>> MatMult(A, x, y);
>> }
>> end = now()
>> print(end - start / 10)
>> ```
>>
>> If I run this program with `-vec_type cuda -mat_type aijcusparse`, the GPUs
>> are indeed utilized, but the recorded time is very tiny (i imagine just
>> tracking the cost of launching cuda kernels). However, if I add `-log_view`
>> to the command line arguments, then the resulting time printed matches what
>> is recorded by `nvprof`. What is the correct way to benchmark PETSc with
>> GPUs without having -log_view turned on?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Rohan
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 15, 2022 at 7:37 AM Barry Smith <bsm...@petsc.dev
>> <mailto:bsm...@petsc.dev>> wrote:
>>
>> Oh yes, you are correct for this operation since the handling of different
>> nonzero pattern is not trivial to implement well for the GPU.
>>
>>> On Jan 15, 2022, at 1:17 AM, Rohan Yadav <roh...@alumni.cmu.edu
>>> <mailto:roh...@alumni.cmu.edu>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Scanning the source code for mpiseqaijcusparse confirms my thoughts -- when
>>> used with DIFFERENT_NONZERO_PATTERN, it falls back to calling
>>> MatAXPY_SeqAIJ, copying the data back over to the host.
>>>
>>> Rohan
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jan 14, 2022 at 10:16 PM Rohan Yadav <roh...@alumni.cmu.edu
>>> <mailto:roh...@alumni.cmu.edu>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
>>> From: Rohan Yadav <roh...@alumni.cmu.edu <mailto:roh...@alumni.cmu.edu>>
>>> Date: Fri, Jan 14, 2022 at 10:03 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [petsc-dev] Using PETSC with GPUs
>>> To: Barry Smith <bsm...@petsc.dev <mailto:bsm...@petsc.dev>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Ok, I'll try looking with greps like and see what I find.
>>>
>>> > My guess why your code is not using the seqaijcusparse is that you are
>>> > not setting the type before you call MatLoad() hence it loads with
>>> > SeqAIJ. -mat_type does not magically change a type once a matrix has a
>>> > set type. I agree our documentation on how to make objects be GPU objects
>>> > is horrible now.
>>>
>>> I printed out my matrices with the PetscViewer objects and can confirm that
>>> the type is seqaijcusparse. Perhaps for the way I'm using it
>>> (DIFFERENT_NONZERO_PATTERN) the kernel is unsupported? I'm not sure how to
>>> get any more diagnostic info about why the cuda kernel isn't called...
>>>
>>> Rohan
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jan 14, 2022 at 9:46 PM Barry Smith <bsm...@petsc.dev
>>> <mailto:bsm...@petsc.dev>> wrote:
>>>
>>> This changes rapidly and depends on if the backend is CUDA, HIP, Sycl, or
>>> Kokkos. The only way to find out definitively is with, for example,
>>>
>>> git grep MatMult_ | egrep -i "(cusparse|cublas|cuda)"
>>>
>>>
>>> Because of our, unfortunately, earlier naming choices you need to kind of
>>> know what to grep for, for CUDA it may be cuSparse or cuBLAS
>>>
>>> Not yet merged branches may also have some operations that are still
>>> being developed.
>>>
>>> My guess why your code is not using the seqaijcusparse is that you are
>>> not setting the type before you call MatLoad() hence it loads with SeqAIJ.
>>> -mat_type does not magically change a type once a matrix has a set type. I
>>> agree our documentation on how to make objects be GPU objects is horrible
>>> now.
>>>
>>> Barry
>>>
>>>
>>>> On Jan 15, 2022, at 12:31 AM, Rohan Yadav <roh...@alumni.cmu.edu
>>>> <mailto:roh...@alumni.cmu.edu>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I was wondering if there is a definitive list for what operations are and
>>>> aren't supported for distributed GPU execution. For some operations, like
>>>> `MatMult`, it is clear that MPIAIJCUSPARSE implements MatMult from the
>>>> documentation, but other operations it is unclear, such as MatMatMult.
>>>> Another scenario is the MatAXPY kernel, which supposedly has a
>>>> SeqAIJCUSPARSE implementation, which I take means that it can only execute
>>>> on a single GPU. However, even if I pass -mat_type seqaijcusparse to the
>>>> kernel it doesn't seem to utilize the GPU.
>>>>
>>>> Rohan
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Jan 14, 2022 at 4:05 PM Barry Smith <bsm...@petsc.dev
>>>> <mailto:bsm...@petsc.dev>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Just use 1 MPI rank.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>> Event Count Time (sec) Flop
>>>> --- Global --- --- Stage ---- Total GPU - CpuToGpu - -
>>>> GpuToCpu - GPU
>>>> Max Ratio Max Ratio Max Ratio Mess AvgLen
>>>> Reduct %T %F %M %L %R %T %F %M %L %R Mflop/s Mflop/s Count Size
>>>> Count Size %F
>>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>
>>>> --- Event Stage 0: Main Stage
>>>>
>>>> BuildTwoSided 1 1.0 1.8650e-013467.8 0.00e+00 0.0 2.0e+00 4.0e+00
>>>> 1.0e+00 0 0 3 0 2 0 0 3 0 4 0 0 0 0.00e+00 0
>>>> 0.00e+00 0
>>>> MatMult 30 1.0 6.6642e+01 1.0 1.16e+10 1.0 6.4e+01 6.4e+08
>>>> 1.0e+00 65100 91 93 2 65100 91 93 4 346 0 0 0.00e+00 31
>>>> 2.65e+04 0
>>>>
>>>> From this it is clear the matrix never ended up on the GPU, but the vector
>>>> did. For each multiply, it is copying the vector from the GPU to the CPU
>>>> and then doing the MatMult on the CPU. If the MatMult was done on the GPU
>>>> the file number in the row would be 100% indicating all the flops were
>>>> done on the GPU and the fifth from the end value of 0 would be some large
>>>> number, being the flop rate on the GPU.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> On Jan 14, 2022, at 4:59 PM, Rohan Yadav <roh...@alumni.cmu.edu
>>>>> <mailto:roh...@alumni.cmu.edu>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> A log_view is attached at the end of the mail.
>>>>>
>>>>> I am running on a large problem size (639 million nonzeros).
>>>>>
>>>>> > * I assume you are assembling the matrix on the CPU. The copy of data
>>>>> > to the GPU takes time and you really should be creating the matrix on
>>>>> > the GPU
>>>>>
>>>>> How do I do this? I'm loading the matrix in from a file, but I'm running
>>>>> the computation several times (and with a warmup), so I would expect that
>>>>> the data is copied onto the GPU the first time. My (cpu) code to do this
>>>>> is here:
>>>>> https://github.com/rohany/taco/blob/5c0a4f4419ba392838590ce24e0043f632409e7b/petsc/benchmark.cpp#L68
>>>>>
>>>>> <https://github.com/rohany/taco/blob/5c0a4f4419ba392838590ce24e0043f632409e7b/petsc/benchmark.cpp#L68>.
>>>>>
>>>>> Log view:
>>>>>
>>>>> ---------------------------------------------- PETSc Performance Summary:
>>>>> ----------------------------------------------
>>>>>
>>>>> ./bin/benchmark on a named lassen75 with 2 processors, by yadav2 Fri Jan
>>>>> 14 13:54:09 2022
>>>>> Using Petsc Release Version 3.16.3, unknown
>>>>>
>>>>> Max Max/Min Avg Total
>>>>> Time (sec): 1.026e+02 1.000 1.026e+02
>>>>> Objects: 1.200e+01 1.000 1.200e+01
>>>>> Flop: 1.156e+10 1.009 1.151e+10 2.303e+10
>>>>> Flop/sec: 1.127e+08 1.009 1.122e+08 2.245e+08
>>>>> MPI Messages: 3.500e+01 1.000 3.500e+01 7.000e+01
>>>>> MPI Message Lengths: 2.210e+10 1.000 6.313e+08 4.419e+10
>>>>> MPI Reductions: 4.100e+01 1.000
>>>>>
>>>>> Flop counting convention: 1 flop = 1 real number operation of type
>>>>> (multiply/divide/add/subtract)
>>>>> e.g., VecAXPY() for real vectors of length N
>>>>> --> 2N flop
>>>>> and VecAXPY() for complex vectors of length N
>>>>> --> 8N flop
>>>>>
>>>>> Summary of Stages: ----- Time ------ ----- Flop ------ --- Messages
>>>>> --- -- Message Lengths -- -- Reductions --
>>>>> Avg %Total Avg %Total Count
>>>>> %Total Avg %Total Count %Total
>>>>> 0: Main Stage: 1.0257e+02 100.0% 2.3025e+10 100.0% 7.000e+01
>>>>> 100.0% 6.313e+08 100.0% 2.300e+01 56.1%
>>>>>
>>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>> See the 'Profiling' chapter of the users' manual for details on
>>>>> interpreting output.
>>>>> Phase summary info:
>>>>> Count: number of times phase was executed
>>>>> Time and Flop: Max - maximum over all processors
>>>>> Ratio - ratio of maximum to minimum over all processors
>>>>> Mess: number of messages sent
>>>>> AvgLen: average message length (bytes)
>>>>> Reduct: number of global reductions
>>>>> Global: entire computation
>>>>> Stage: stages of a computation. Set stages with PetscLogStagePush()
>>>>> and PetscLogStagePop().
>>>>> %T - percent time in this phase %F - percent flop in this
>>>>> phase
>>>>> %M - percent messages in this phase %L - percent message
>>>>> lengths in this phase
>>>>> %R - percent reductions in this phase
>>>>> Total Mflop/s: 10e-6 * (sum of flop over all processors)/(max time
>>>>> over all processors)
>>>>> GPU Mflop/s: 10e-6 * (sum of flop on GPU over all processors)/(max GPU
>>>>> time over all processors)
>>>>> CpuToGpu Count: total number of CPU to GPU copies per processor
>>>>> CpuToGpu Size (Mbytes): 10e-6 * (total size of CPU to GPU copies per
>>>>> processor)
>>>>> GpuToCpu Count: total number of GPU to CPU copies per processor
>>>>> GpuToCpu Size (Mbytes): 10e-6 * (total size of GPU to CPU copies per
>>>>> processor)
>>>>> GPU %F: percent flops on GPU in this event
>>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>> Event Count Time (sec) Flop
>>>>> --- Global --- --- Stage ---- Total GPU - CpuToGpu - -
>>>>> GpuToCpu - GPU
>>>>> Max Ratio Max Ratio Max Ratio Mess AvgLen
>>>>> Reduct %T %F %M %L %R %T %F %M %L %R Mflop/s Mflop/s Count Size
>>>>> Count Size %F
>>>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>>
>>>>> --- Event Stage 0: Main Stage
>>>>>
>>>>> BuildTwoSided 1 1.0 1.8650e-013467.8 0.00e+00 0.0 2.0e+00
>>>>> 4.0e+00 1.0e+00 0 0 3 0 2 0 0 3 0 4 0 0 0
>>>>> 0.00e+00 0 0.00e+00 0
>>>>> MatMult 30 1.0 6.6642e+01 1.0 1.16e+10 1.0 6.4e+01 6.4e+08
>>>>> 1.0e+00 65100 91 93 2 65100 91 93 4 346 0 0 0.00e+00 31
>>>>> 2.65e+04 0
>>>>> MatAssemblyBegin 1 1.0 3.1100e-07 1.1 0.00e+00 0.0 0.0e+00 0.0e+00
>>>>> 0.0e+00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00e+00 0
>>>>> 0.00e+00 0
>>>>> MatAssemblyEnd 1 1.0 1.9798e+01 1.0 0.00e+00 0.0 0.0e+00 0.0e+00
>>>>> 4.0e+00 19 0 0 0 10 19 0 0 0 17 0 0 0 0.00e+00 0
>>>>> 0.00e+00 0
>>>>> MatLoad 1 1.0 3.5519e+01 1.0 0.00e+00 0.0 6.0e+00 5.4e+08
>>>>> 1.6e+01 35 0 9 7 39 35 0 9 7 70 0 0 0 0.00e+00 0
>>>>> 0.00e+00 0
>>>>> VecSet 5 1.0 5.8959e-02 1.1 0.00e+00 0.0 0.0e+00 0.0e+00
>>>>> 0.0e+00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00e+00 0
>>>>> 0.00e+00 0
>>>>> VecScatterBegin 30 1.0 5.4085e+00 1.0 0.00e+00 0.0 6.4e+01 6.4e+08
>>>>> 1.0e+00 5 0 91 93 2 5 0 91 93 4 0 0 0 0.00e+00 0
>>>>> 0.00e+00 0
>>>>> VecScatterEnd 30 1.0 9.2544e+00 2.5 0.00e+00 0.0 0.0e+00 0.0e+00
>>>>> 0.0e+00 6 0 0 0 0 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00e+00 0
>>>>> 0.00e+00 0
>>>>> VecCUDACopyFrom 31 1.0 4.0174e-01 1.0 0.00e+00 0.0 0.0e+00 0.0e+00
>>>>> 0.0e+00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00e+00 31
>>>>> 2.65e+04 0
>>>>> SFSetGraph 1 1.0 4.4912e-02 1.0 0.00e+00 0.0 0.0e+00 0.0e+00
>>>>> 0.0e+00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00e+00 0
>>>>> 0.00e+00 0
>>>>> SFSetUp 1 1.0 5.2595e+00 1.0 0.00e+00 0.0 4.0e+00 1.7e+08
>>>>> 1.0e+00 5 0 6 2 2 5 0 6 2 4 0 0 0 0.00e+00 0
>>>>> 0.00e+00 0
>>>>> SFPack 30 1.0 3.4021e-02 1.0 0.00e+00 0.0 0.0e+00 0.0e+00
>>>>> 0.0e+00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00e+00 0
>>>>> 0.00e+00 0
>>>>> SFUnpack 30 1.0 1.9222e-05 1.5 0.00e+00 0.0 0.0e+00 0.0e+00
>>>>> 0.0e+00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00e+00 0
>>>>> 0.00e+00 0
>>>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>>
>>>>> Memory usage is given in bytes:
>>>>>
>>>>> Object Type Creations Destructions Memory Descendants'
>>>>> Mem.
>>>>> Reports information only for process 0.
>>>>>
>>>>> --- Event Stage 0: Main Stage
>>>>>
>>>>> Matrix 3 0 0 0.
>>>>> Viewer 2 0 0 0.
>>>>> Vector 4 1 1792 0.
>>>>> Index Set 2 2 335250404 0.
>>>>> Star Forest Graph 1 0 0 0.
>>>>> ========================================================================================================================
>>>>> Average time to get PetscTime(): 3.77e-08
>>>>> Average time for MPI_Barrier(): 8.754e-07
>>>>> Average time for zero size MPI_Send(): 2.6755e-06
>>>>> #PETSc Option Table entries:
>>>>> -log_view
>>>>> -mat_type aijcusparse
>>>>> -matrix /p/gpfs1/yadav2/tensors//petsc/kmer_V1r.petsc
>>>>> -n 20
>>>>> -vec_type cuda
>>>>> -warmup 10
>>>>> #End of PETSc Option Table entries
>>>>> Compiled without FORTRAN kernels
>>>>> Compiled with full precision matrices (default)
>>>>> sizeof(short) 2 sizeof(int) 4 sizeof(long) 8 sizeof(void*) 8
>>>>> sizeof(PetscScalar) 8 sizeof(PetscInt) 4
>>>>> Configure options: --download-c2html=0 --download-hwloc=0
>>>>> --download-sowing=0 --prefix=./petsc-install/ --with-64-bit-indices=0
>>>>> --with-blaslapack-lib="/usr/tcetmp/packages/lapack/lapack-3.9.0-gcc-7.3.1/lib/liblapack.so
>>>>> /usr/tcetmp/packages/lapack/lapack-3.9.0-gcc-7.3.1/lib/libblas.so"
>>>>> --with-cc=/usr/tce/packages/spectrum-mpi/spectrum-mpi-rolling-release-gcc-8.3.1/bin/mpigcc
>>>>> --with-clanguage=C --with-cxx-dialect=C++17
>>>>> --with-cxx=/usr/tce/packages/spectrum-mpi/spectrum-mpi-rolling-release-gcc-8.3.1/bin/mpig++
>>>>> --with-cuda=1 --with-debugging=0
>>>>> --with-fc=/usr/tce/packages/spectrum-mpi/spectrum-mpi-rolling-release-gcc-8.3.1/bin/mpigfortran
>>>>> --with-fftw=0
>>>>> --with-hdf5-dir=/usr/tcetmp/packages/petsc/build/3.13.0/spack/opt/spack/linux-rhel7-power9le/xl_r-16.1/hdf5-1.10.6-e7e7urb5k7va3ib7j4uro56grvzmcmd4
>>>>> --with-hdf5=1 --with-mumps=0 --with-precision=double --with-scalapack=0
>>>>> --with-scalar-type=real --with-shared-libraries=1 --with-ssl=0
>>>>> --with-suitesparse=0 --with-trilinos=0 --with-valgrind=0 --with-x=0
>>>>> --with-zlib-include=/usr/include --with-zlib-lib=/usr/lib64/libz.so
>>>>> --with-zlib=1 CFLAGS="-g -DNoChange" COPTFLAGS="-O3" CXXFLAGS="-O3"
>>>>> CXXOPTFLAGS="-O3" FFLAGS=-g CUDAFLAGS=-std=c++17 FOPTFLAGS=
>>>>> PETSC_ARCH=arch-linux-c-opt
>>>>> -----------------------------------------
>>>>> Libraries compiled on 2022-01-14 20:56:04 on lassen99
>>>>> Machine characteristics:
>>>>> Linux-4.14.0-115.21.2.1chaos.ch6a.ppc64le-ppc64le-with-redhat-7.6-Maipo
>>>>> Using PETSc directory: /g/g15/yadav2/taco/petsc/petsc/petsc-install
>>>>> Using PETSc arch:
>>>>> -----------------------------------------
>>>>>
>>>>> Using C compiler:
>>>>> /usr/tce/packages/spectrum-mpi/spectrum-mpi-rolling-release-gcc-8.3.1/bin/mpigcc
>>>>> -g -DNoChange -fPIC "-O3"
>>>>> Using Fortran compiler:
>>>>> /usr/tce/packages/spectrum-mpi/spectrum-mpi-rolling-release-gcc-8.3.1/bin/mpigfortran
>>>>> -g -fPIC
>>>>> -----------------------------------------
>>>>>
>>>>> Using include paths:
>>>>> -I/g/g15/yadav2/taco/petsc/petsc/petsc-install/include
>>>>> -I/usr/tcetmp/packages/petsc/build/3.13.0/spack/opt/spack/linux-rhel7-power9le/xl_r-16.1/hdf5-1.10.6-e7e7urb5k7va3ib7j4uro56grvzmcmd4/include
>>>>> -I/usr/include -I/usr/tce/packages/cuda/cuda-11.1.0/include
>>>>> -----------------------------------------
>>>>>
>>>>> Using C linker:
>>>>> /usr/tce/packages/spectrum-mpi/spectrum-mpi-rolling-release-gcc-8.3.1/bin/mpigcc
>>>>> Using Fortran linker:
>>>>> /usr/tce/packages/spectrum-mpi/spectrum-mpi-rolling-release-gcc-8.3.1/bin/mpigfortran
>>>>> Using libraries:
>>>>> -Wl,-rpath,/g/g15/yadav2/taco/petsc/petsc/petsc-install/lib
>>>>> -L/g/g15/yadav2/taco/petsc/petsc/petsc-install/lib -lpetsc
>>>>> -Wl,-rpath,/usr/tcetmp/packages/lapack/lapack-3.9.0-gcc-7.3.1/lib
>>>>> -L/usr/tcetmp/packages/lapack/lapack-3.9.0-gcc-7.3.1/lib
>>>>> -Wl,-rpath,/usr/tcetmp/packages/petsc/build/3.13.0/spack/opt/spack/linux-rhel7-power9le/xl_r-16.1/hdf5-1.10.6-e7e7urb5k7va3ib7j4uro56grvzmcmd4/lib
>>>>>
>>>>> -L/usr/tcetmp/packages/petsc/build/3.13.0/spack/opt/spack/linux-rhel7-power9le/xl_r-16.1/hdf5-1.10.6-e7e7urb5k7va3ib7j4uro56grvzmcmd4/lib
>>>>> -Wl,-rpath,/usr/tce/packages/cuda/cuda-11.1.0/lib64
>>>>> -L/usr/tce/packages/cuda/cuda-11.1.0/lib64
>>>>> -Wl,-rpath,/usr/tce/packages/spectrum-mpi/ibm/spectrum-mpi-rolling-release/lib
>>>>> -L/usr/tce/packages/spectrum-mpi/ibm/spectrum-mpi-rolling-release/lib
>>>>> -Wl,-rpath,/usr/tce/packages/gcc/gcc-8.3.1/rh/usr/lib/gcc/ppc64le-redhat-linux/8
>>>>> -L/usr/tce/packages/gcc/gcc-8.3.1/rh/usr/lib/gcc/ppc64le-redhat-linux/8
>>>>> -Wl,-rpath,/usr/tce/packages/gcc/gcc-8.3.1/rh/usr/lib/gcc
>>>>> -L/usr/tce/packages/gcc/gcc-8.3.1/rh/usr/lib/gcc
>>>>> -Wl,-rpath,/usr/tce/packages/gcc/gcc-8.3.1/rh/usr/lib64
>>>>> -L/usr/tce/packages/gcc/gcc-8.3.1/rh/usr/lib64
>>>>> -Wl,-rpath,/usr/tce/packages/gcc/gcc-8.3.1/rh/usr/lib
>>>>> -L/usr/tce/packages/gcc/gcc-8.3.1/rh/usr/lib -llapack -lblas -lhdf5_hl
>>>>> -lhdf5 -lm /usr/lib64/libz.so -lcuda -lcudart -lcufft -lcublas -lcusparse
>>>>> -lcusolver -lcurand -lstdc++ -ldl -lmpiprofilesupport -lmpi_ibm_usempi
>>>>> -lmpi_ibm_mpifh -lmpi_ibm -lgfortran -lm -lgfortran -lm -lgcc_s
>>>>> -lquadmath -lpthread -lquadmath -lstdc++ -ldl
>>>>> -----------------------------------------
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Jan 14, 2022 at 1:43 PM Mark Adams <mfad...@lbl.gov
>>>>> <mailto:mfad...@lbl.gov>> wrote:
>>>>> There are a few things:
>>>>> * GPU have higher latencies and so you basically need a large enough
>>>>> problem to get GPU speedup
>>>>> * I assume you are assembling the matrix on the CPU. The copy of data to
>>>>> the GPU takes time and you really should be creating the matrix on the GPU
>>>>> * I agree with Barry, Roughly 1M / GPU is around where you start seeing a
>>>>> win but this depends on a lot of things.
>>>>> * There are startup costs, like the CPU-GPU copy. It is best to run one
>>>>> mat-vec, or whatever, push a new stage and then run the benchmark. The
>>>>> timing for this new stage will be separate in the log view data. Look at
>>>>> that.
>>>>> - You can fake this by running your benchmark many times to amortize any
>>>>> setup costs.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Jan 14, 2022 at 4:27 PM Rohan Yadav <roh...@alumni.cmu.edu
>>>>> <mailto:roh...@alumni.cmu.edu>> wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm looking to use PETSc with GPUs to do some linear algebra operations,
>>>>> like SpMV, SPMM etc. Building PETSc with `--with-cuda=1` and running with
>>>>> `-mat_type aijcusparse -vec_type cuda` gives me a large slowdown from the
>>>>> same code running on the CPU. This is not entirely unexpected, as things
>>>>> like data transfer costs across the PCIE might erroneously be included in
>>>>> my timing. Are there some examples of benchmarking GPU computations with
>>>>> PETSc, or just the proper way to write code in PETSc that will work for
>>>>> CPUs and GPUs?
>>>>>
>>>>> Rohan
>>>>
>>>
>>
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