On 02/23/2016 07:33 PM, Ross Walker wrote:
>
>> On Feb 23, 2016, at 8:57 AM, Gerald Monard <Gerald.Monard.univ-lorraine.fr> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I was going to send to all of you some details about the current status
>> of Quick in the next few days, but you were faster...
>>
>> So, for some details:
>>
>> On 02/23/2016 04:29 PM, Ross Walker wrote:
>>> Hi Gerald,
>>>
>>> I see commits for Quick in master. This looks cool. Note will it be built as part of the standard ./configure -cuda build?
>>>
>>
>> Yes and no. For the moment, the AmberTools/src/Makefile contains a line
>> for building quick.cuda but it is commented out. My problem right now is
>> that one of the cuda files needs ~1.5 hour to compile! I was going to
>> request some help from Kennie's group and yours to see if we can speed
>> up compilation.
>> For the moment, only the serial and MPI versions of quick are built by
>> default. If you want quick.cuda, you need to "cd AmberTools/src/quick &&
>> make".
>>
>
> Yeap - the slowest compiler on the planet strikes again. I can get this escalated directly to the right people at NVIDIA which will probably be quickest way of addressing it. Which file is it specifically? I'd need to put together a standalone repo - i.e. the minimum set files of files they would need to reproduce the problem and then I can get us some help.
>
The file is gpu_get2e.cu. I can provide you with a tar file containing
the minimum required files. FYI, the compilation time is not that
surprising since "nvcc -E gpu_get2e.cu | wc -l" gives something like
130k lines. This is because the file contains many #include. I tried to
use nvcc -dc to do separate compilations, but there are also many
__inline__ and I haven't found any working solution yet.
>>> One thing to note is that pmemd.cuda from AMBER 16 onwards is going to need a minimum of NVCC v7.5 so it would probably be best if we just restrict the whole of AMBER + AmberTools to require a minimum of NVCC 7.5 for simplicity.
>>>
>>
>> OK. I guess you worried about the cuda-5.0... I currently writing tests
>> and I'm checking that I can have the same results for cuda > 5. I don't
>> mind going directly to 7.5, that will save me some work.
>>
>
> Cool - so if I change the configure script to test for 7.5 and later or quit and request one upgrades NVCC there would be no objects yes?
>
That should be OK for me, although I haven't tested 7.5 yet.
Btw, my compilation time problem comes also by the fact that ./configure
-cuda builds a config.h that requires nvcc to compile for many
architectures (5 gencode if I count correctly). Reducing this number
could also help since nvcc recompiles the same for each architecture
(and it's not parallel!). Maybe through configure?
All the best,
Gerald.
> All the best
> Ross
>
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