Hi Karli,

Karl Rupp <r...@iue.tuwien.ac.at> writes:
> I fixed a couple of minor problems today, which should finally result in 
> practically full success of the nightly test suite. One of them might be 
> the cause of your first item, which showed up as build errors on NVIDIA 
> GPUs.

Yes, and cf my other mail!..

> ViennaCL used to dump the build log and the kernel sources. You should 
> see the same?

It still does, but in this case, it never got that far!

>> I think the defining feature is the ElementFabs of some expression
>> involving a Trans, and I think these are now occurring because I
>> disabled an old bit of code: previously, I dispatched the matrix
>> transposition before the rest of the statement, because expressions
>> involving trans weren't supported by the scheduler. But then Philippe
>> pointed out that this made autotuning such expressions impossible, so I
>> disabled that dispatch. It seems there are some bits where this remains
>> unsupported, so I'll have a think about what to do.
>
> The core does not support composite expressions involving trans(), e.g
>   A + trans(A)
> What is currently supported is:
>   A = prod(trans(B), C);
>   A = prod(B, trans(C));
>   A = prod(trans(B), trans(C));
>   A = solve(trans(B), C, (unit_)upper_tag or (unit_)lower_tag);
>   A = solve(B, trans(C), (unit_)upper_tag or (unit_)lower_tag);
>   A = solve(trans(B), trans(C), (unit_)upper_tag or (unit_)lower_tag);
>   y = prod(trans(A), x);
>   A = trans(B);
>
> I could fix up the scheduler such that it creates a temporary when 
> encountering trans() in any other operation, though.

Aha. If you can spare the time to add that, that would be great, but if
not, I can add another check to the PyViennaCL dispatch mechanism. I
really don't mind (though of course there's less overhead in C++).

Cheers,

Toby


-- 
Toby St Clere Smithe
http://tsmithe.net


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