Oh, doesn't even have to be that large. We just need to be able to look at the flop rates (as a surrogate for run times) and compare with the previous runs. So long as the size per process is pretty much the same that is good enough.
Barry > On Aug 14, 2019, at 8:45 PM, Mark Adams <mfad...@lbl.gov> wrote: > > I can run single, I just can't scale up. But I can use like 1500 processors. > > On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 9:31 PM Smith, Barry F. <bsm...@mcs.anl.gov> wrote: > > Oh, are all your integers 8 bytes? Even on one node? > > Once Karl's new middleware is in place we should see about reducing to 4 > bytes on the GPU. > > Barry > > > > On Aug 14, 2019, at 7:44 PM, Mark Adams <mfad...@lbl.gov> wrote: > > > > OK, I'll run single. It a bit perverse to run with 4 byte floats and 8 byte > > integers ... I could use 32 bit ints and just not scale out. > > > > On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 6:48 PM Smith, Barry F. <bsm...@mcs.anl.gov> wrote: > > > > Mark, > > > > Oh, I don't even care if it converges, just put in a fixed number of > > iterations. The idea is to just get a baseline of the possible improvement. > > > > ECP is literally dropping millions into research on "multi precision" > > computations on GPUs, we need to have some actual numbers for the best > > potential benefit to determine how much we invest in further investigating > > it, or not. > > > > I am not expressing any opinions on the approach, we are just in the > > fact gathering stage. > > > > > > Barry > > > > > > > On Aug 14, 2019, at 2:27 PM, Mark Adams <mfad...@lbl.gov> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 2:35 PM Smith, Barry F. <bsm...@mcs.anl.gov> > > > wrote: > > > > > > Mark, > > > > > > Would you be able to make one run using single precision? Just single > > > everywhere since that is all we support currently? > > > > > > > > > Experience in engineering at least is single does not work for FE > > > elasticity. I have tried it many years ago and have heard this from > > > others. This problem is pretty simple other than using Q2. I suppose I > > > could try it, but just be aware the FE people might say that single sucks. > > > > > > The results will give us motivation (or anti-motivation) to have > > > support for running KSP (or PC (or Mat) in single precision while the > > > simulation is double. > > > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > Barry > > > > > > For example if the GPU speed on KSP is a factor of 3 over the double on > > > GPUs this is serious motivation. > > > > > > > > > > On Aug 14, 2019, at 12:45 PM, Mark Adams <mfad...@lbl.gov> wrote: > > > > > > > > FYI, Here is some scaling data of GAMG on SUMMIT. Getting about 4x GPU > > > > speedup with 98K dof/proc (3D Q2 elasticity). > > > > > > > > This is weak scaling of a solve. There is growth in iteration count > > > > folded in here. I should put rtol in the title and/or run a fixed > > > > number of iterations and make it clear in the title. > > > > > > > > Comments welcome. > > > > <out_cpu_012288><out_cpu_001536><out_cuda_012288><out_cpu_000024><out_cpu_000192><out_cuda_001536><out_cuda_000192><out_cuda_000024><weak_scaling_cpu.png><weak_scaling_cuda.png> > > > > > >
