CUDA simulation memory usage

From: Jesper Sørensen (lists_at_jsx.dk)
Date: Wed May 18 2011 - 05:03:17 CDT

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Hi,

I have just been benchmarking our new cluster with GPUs and the memory usage that NAMD prints out at the end of the simulation run is MUCH larger with GPU's than without the GPU's.

With CUDA:
WallClock: 1246.348877 CPUTime: 1246.348877 Memory: 41306.324219 MB

Without CUDA
WallClock: 4025.868896 CPUTime: 4025.868896 Memory: 350.937500 MB

I am assuming that the Memory number with CUDA is wrong - mostly because I know that we don't have that much memory in these new machines. Is it taking memory on the GFX-card into account, or what is going on?

I've looked through the mailinglist, but I haven't been able to find anything on this issue...

Best regards,

Jesper Sørensen
Dept. of Chemistry
Aarhus University, Denmark

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