Re: Fwd: Fwd: upgrade to jessie from wheezy with cuda problems

2013-11-19 Thread Francesco Pietra
I set PCIe 3.0 permanently. With a system of 150K atoms there is no acceleration at all of molecular dynamics with ivy with respect to sandy bridge. At the end of this exercise, given the very meager acceleration with 500K atoms (which is a large system under any respect, even for

Fwd: upgrade to jessie from wheezy with cuda problems

2013-11-18 Thread Francesco Pietra
. francesco pietra -- Forwarded message -- From: Francesco Pietra chiendar...@gmail.com Date: Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 4:09 PM Subject: Fwd: upgrade to jessie from wheezy with cuda problems To: amd64 Debian debian-amd64@lists.debian.org, Lennart Sorensen lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca

Re: Fwd: upgrade to jessie from wheezy with cuda problems

2013-11-18 Thread Fabricio Cannini
Em 18-11-2013 13:13, Francesco Pietra escreveu: It is getting hard, unless I mistaken what was suggested by nvidia . Thus, following what was suggested by nvidia as a no-barrier solution,

Re: Fwd: upgrade to jessie from wheezy with cuda problems

2013-11-18 Thread Fabricio Cannini
Em 18-11-2013 13:13, Francesco Pietra escreveu: It is getting hard, unless I mistaken what was suggested by nvidia . Thus, following what was suggested by nvidia as a no-barrier solution,

Re: Fwd: upgrade to jessie from wheezy with cuda problems

2013-11-18 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 10:45:58AM +0100, Francesco Pietra wrote: I am attacking the problem from another side, directly from within the OS itself: #lspi - tells that the link speed (= link status) LnkSta is at 5Gb/s, no matter whether the system is at number crunching or not. I.e.,

Re: Fwd: upgrade to jessie from wheezy with cuda problems

2013-11-18 Thread Francesco Pietra
Might need nvidia-current instead of nvidia. It failed to bring to PCIe 3.0 when inserted into nvidia.conf francesco@gig64:/etc/modprobe.d$ cat nvidia.conf alias nvidia nvidia-current remove nvidia-current rmmod nvidia # 1. options nvidia-current NVreg_EnablePCIeGen3=1 (of course it was not

Fwd: Fwd: upgrade to jessie from wheezy with cuda problems

2013-11-18 Thread Francesco Pietra
I forgot to mention that LnkSta 8GT/s is obtained only when actually carrying out the MD simulation. fp -- Forwarded message -- From: Francesco Pietra chiendar...@gmail.com Date: Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 10:37 PM Subject: Re: Fwd: upgrade to jessie from wheezy with cuda problems

Re: Fwd: Fwd: upgrade to jessie from wheezy with cuda problems

2013-11-18 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 10:39:53PM +0100, Francesco Pietra wrote: I forgot to mention that LnkSta 8GT/s is obtained only when actually carrying out the MD simulation. I believe to save power the link speed changes on the fly based on demand. -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Fwd: upgrade to jessie from wheezy with cuda problems

2013-11-17 Thread Francesco Pietra
I am attacking the problem from another side, directly from within the OS itself: #lspi - tells that the link speed (= link status) LnkSta is at 5Gb/s, no matter whether the system is at number crunching or not. I.e., my system is at PCIe 2.0. This might explain why upgrading from sandy

Fwd: upgrade to jessie from wheezy with cuda problems

2013-11-17 Thread Francesco Pietra
...@gmail.com Date: Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 3:54 PM Subject: upgrade to jessie from wheezy with cuda problems To: amd64 Debian debian-amd64@lists.debian.org Hello: I decided to try jessie to get PCIe 3.0 with a recent nvidia driver, thus upgrading from wheezy. wheezy was uname -r 3.2.0-4-amd64 nvidia

Fwd: upgrade to jessie from wheezy with cuda problems

2013-11-17 Thread Francesco Pietra
+, LinkEqualizationRequest- francesco pietra -- Forwarded message -- From: Francesco Pietra chiendar...@gmail.com Date: Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 3:54 PM Subject: upgrade to jessie from wheezy with cuda problems To: amd64 Debian debian-amd64@lists.debian.org Hello: I decided to try jessie to get PCIe

Fwd: upgrade to jessie from wheezy with cuda problems

2013-11-17 Thread Francesco Pietra
, 2013 at 11:42 AM Subject: Fwd: upgrade to jessie from wheezy with cuda problems To: amd64 Debian debian-amd64@lists.debian.org, Lennart Sorensen lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca Very sorry, forget about previous post. There, I had started MD from the gnome terminal, without activating the GPUUs

Re: upgrade to jessie from wheezy with cuda problems

2013-11-13 Thread Francesco Pietra
I think it was renamed. No idea why. modinfo nvidia-current should work though. Yes, it does. Do you have the cuda libraries for the 319 version installed? Yes I don't play around with GPU computations, but from what I have read it does need a certain size job before the overhead of

Re: upgrade to jessie from wheezy with cuda problems

2013-11-13 Thread Francesco Pietra
My answer seems to have disappeared. I summarize here. modinfo nvidia-curred works well. CUDA libraries are installed. For nvidia-cuda-toolkit, nvidia offers SDK packages for Ubuntu, not for Debian. I don't like to get into troubles with Ubuntu, which, unlike LinuxMINT, is not compatible with

Re: upgrade to jessie from wheezy with cuda problems

2013-11-13 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 10:13:15AM +0100, Francesco Pietra wrote: I think it was renamed. No idea why. modinfo nvidia-current should work though. Yes, it does. Do you have the cuda libraries for the 319 version installed? Yes I don't play around with GPU computations, but

Re: upgrade to jessie from wheezy with cuda problems

2013-11-13 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 10:32:26AM +0100, Francesco Pietra wrote: My answer seems to have disappeared. I summarize here. modinfo nvidia-curred works well. CUDA libraries are installed. For nvidia-cuda-toolkit, nvidia offers SDK packages for Ubuntu, not for Debian. I don't like to get into

Fwd: upgrade to jessie from wheezy with cuda problems

2013-11-13 Thread Francesco Pietra
francesco@gig64:~/tmp$ -- Forwarded message -- From: Francesco Pietra chiendar...@gmail.com Date: Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 10:32 AM Subject: Re: upgrade to jessie from wheezy with cuda problems To: Lennart Sorensen lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca Cc: amd64 Debian debian-amd64

Fwd: upgrade to jessie from wheezy with cuda problems

2013-11-13 Thread Francesco Pietra
the bandwidth. thanks francesco pietra -- Forwarded message -- From: Francesco Pietra chiendar...@gmail.com Date: Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 7:40 PM Subject: Fwd: upgrade to jessie from wheezy with cuda problems To: amd64 Debian debian-amd64@lists.debian.org francesco@gig64:~/tmp$ export

Re: Fwd: upgrade to jessie from wheezy with cuda problems

2013-11-13 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 07:40:10PM +0100, Francesco Pietra wrote: francesco@gig64:~/tmp$ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ That is unnecesary. That is already in the library path. The local directory is not. Windows implicitly looks in the current directory for files, linux

Re: Fwd: upgrade to jessie from wheezy with cuda problems

2013-11-13 Thread Fabricio Cannini
Em 13-11-2013 16:40, Francesco Pietra escreveu: francesco@gig64:~/tmp$ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ francesco@gig64:~/tmp$ ./CUDA-Z-0.7.189.run CUDA-Z 0.7.189 Container Starting CUDA-Z... /home/francesco/tmp/CUDA-Z-95b0-7943-3edd-827e/cuda-z: error while loading shared

Re: Fwd: upgrade to jessie from wheezy with cuda problems

2013-11-13 Thread Francesco Pietra
francesco@gig64:~$ file /home/francesco/tmp/CUDA-Z-95b0-7943-3edd-827e/cuda-z /home/francesco/tmp/CUDA-Z-95b0-7943-3edd-827e/cuda-z: ERROR: cannot open `/home/francesco/tmp/CUDA-Z-95b0-7943-3edd-827e/cuda-z' (No such file or directory) francesco@gig64:~$ On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 8:18 PM, Fabricio

Re: Fwd: upgrade to jessie from wheezy with cuda problems

2013-11-13 Thread Francesco Pietra
What does 'file ./CUDA-Z-0.7.189.run' say? francesco@gig64:~/tmp$ file ./CUDA-Z-0.7.189.run ./CUDA-Z-0.7.189.run: data francesco@gig64:~/tmp$ On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 7:52 PM, Lennart Sorensen lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca wrote: On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 07:40:10PM +0100, Francesco Pietra

Re: Fwd: upgrade to jessie from wheezy with cuda problems

2013-11-13 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 10:53:30PM +0100, Francesco Pietra wrote: francesco@gig64:~/tmp$ file ./CUDA-Z-0.7.189.run ./CUDA-Z-0.7.189.run: data francesco@gig64:~/tmp$ OK that's weird. I expected to see x86 32 or 64bit binary. Seems to be a shell scripts with compressed code in it. Yuck. :)

Re: Fwd: upgrade to jessie from wheezy with cuda problems

2013-11-13 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 05:43:47PM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 10:53:30PM +0100, Francesco Pietra wrote: francesco@gig64:~/tmp$ file ./CUDA-Z-0.7.189.run ./CUDA-Z-0.7.189.run: data francesco@gig64:~/tmp$ OK that's weird. I expected to see x86 32 or 64bit

upgrade to jessie from wheezy with cuda problems

2013-11-12 Thread Francesco Pietra
Hello: I decided to try jessie to get PCIe 3.0 with a recent nvidia driver, thus upgrading from wheezy. wheezy was uname -r 3.2.0-4-amd64 nvidia-smi 304.88 nvcc --version 4.2 (the latter is also the version at which the molecular dynamics code was compiled, and used without calling the

Re: upgrade to jessie from wheezy with cuda problems

2013-11-12 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 03:54:32PM +0100, Francesco Pietra wrote: Hello: I decided to try jessie to get PCIe 3.0 with a recent nvidia driver, thus upgrading from wheezy. wheezy was uname -r 3.2.0-4-amd64 nvidia-smi 304.88 nvcc --version 4.2 (the latter is also the version at

Re: upgrade to jessie from wheezy with cuda problems

2013-11-12 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 05:22:18PM +0100, Francesco Pietra wrote: Yes. Also, # apt-get remove nvidia-kernel-dkms # apt-get install nvidia-kernel-dkms (which, in the year 2011, served to clear the driver at /lib/modules/2.6.38-2-amd64/updates/dkms. But now the kernel was 3.2.) left the

Re: upgrade to jessie from wheezy with cuda problems

2013-11-12 Thread Francesco Pietra
# apt-get --purge remove *legacy* did the job. I wonder how these legacy packages entered the scene while updating/upgrading from a clean wheezy. The bad news are that with the new driver 319.60 there was no acceleration of molecular dynamics for a job of modest size (150K atoms) and slight

Re: upgrade to jessie from wheezy with cuda problems

2013-11-12 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 10:35:53PM +0100, Francesco Pietra wrote: # apt-get --purge remove *legacy* did the job. I wonder how these legacy packages entered the scene while updating/upgrading from a clean wheezy. The bad news are that with the new driver 319.60 there was no acceleration