Hi,
I have successfully installed pyopencl on a i7 laptop with a Mobile
5850 ATI video card.
My software configuration is:
- Ubuntu 9.10 64 bit
- Stream 2.2 (AMD/ATI)
- latest AMD/ATI mobile video driver (10.10)
Playing with the various demos included in pyopencl :
1./ if the code runs on the CPU (using OpenCL) all the 8 "cores" of
the i7 goes to 100% , but the machine is still usable; mouse react and
the other windows are active;
2./ if the same code run on the GPU (using OpenCL) the machine
"freeze" completely during the execution of the kernel.
N.B: "freeze" means that the PC does not react during kernel execution
but, at the end, my laptop correctly restart normal operation: no
stability problem, sudden crash or memory leaks. Numerical results are
ok in both cases. I suspect that is not a stability related issue but
only how "wait" is implemented (probably there is a "busy wait" inside
the GPU code).
My "newbie" questions are:
- situation 2./ is it normal? Can I avoid the "freeze" of the machine ?
- can I use CPU _and_ GPU at the same time? How do that from pyopencl ?
Another observation is about the amount of available memory reported:
- pyopencl reports 3Gbytes for the CPU and 512Mbytes for the GPU, but
I have 6Gbyte of RAM and 1Gbyte of video RAM ....
Thanks in advance for your help
Simone Mannori
www.scicos.org ; www.scicoslab.org ;
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