On Mon, Apr 9, 2018 at 6:12 PM, Manuel Valera <mvaler...@sdsu.edu> wrote:
> Hello guys,
>
> I've made advances in my CUDA acceleration project, as you remember i have
> a CFD model in need of better execution times.
>
> So far i have been able to solve the pressure system in the GPU and the
> rest in serial, using PETSc only for this pressure solve, the library i got
> to work was ViennaCL. First question, do i still have to switch
> installations to use either CUDA library? this was a suggestion before, so
> in order to use CUSP instead of ViennaCL, for example, i currently have to
> change installations, is this still the case?
>
I am not sure what that means exactly. However, you can build a PETSc with
CUDA and ViennaCL support. The type of Vec/Mat is selected at runtime.
> Now, i started working in a fully parallelized version of the model, which
> uses the DMs and DMDAs to distribute the arrays, if i try the same flags as
> before i get an error saying "Currently only handles ViennaCL matrices"
> when trying to solve for pressure, i get this is a feature still not
> implemented? what options do i have to solve pressure, or assign a DMDA
> array update to be done specifically in a GPU device?
>
If we can't see the error, we are just guessing. Please send the entire
error message.
Note, we only do linear algebra on the GPU, so none of the
FormFunction/FormJacobian stuff for DMDA would be on the GPU.
> I was thinking of using the VecScatterCreateToZero for a regular vector,
>
Why do you want a serial vector?
> but then i would have to create a vector and copy the DMDAVec into it,
>
I do not understand what it means to copy the DM into the Vec.
Thanks,
Matt
> is this accomplished with DMDAVecGetArrayReadF90 and then just copy? do
> you think this will generate too much overhead?
>
> Thanks so much for your input,
>
> Manuel
>
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