AW: AW: AW: AW: FATAL ERROR: PME offload requires exactly one CUDA device per process.

From: Norman Geist (norman.geist_at_uni-greifswald.de)
Date: Mon Aug 25 2014 - 01:07:21 CDT

And do you notice any significant speedup due the PME offload, so means
compared to 2.9 ??
I'll need to update by gpu driver in order to try the 2.10, will do it today
maybe.

Norman Geist.

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: owner-namd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu [mailto:owner-namd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu] Im
> Auftrag von Maxime Boissonneault
> Gesendet: Freitag, 22. August 2014 15:59
> An: Norman Geist
> Cc: Namd Mailing List
> Betreff: Re: AW: AW: AW: namd-l: FATAL ERROR: PME offload requires
> exactly one CUDA device per process.
>
> I did. As far as I understand it, the PPN number is the number of
> thread
> per *process*.
>
> In the multicore version, there is *one* process.
>
> The only way I managed to use 8 GPUs is by using the MPI version. In
> that case, there are as many processes as the number of MPI ranks, so I
> can start it with
> mpiexec -np 8 namd2 +ppn2 ...
>
> That will start 8 processes (one for each GPU), and 2 threads per
> process.
>
>
> Maxime
>
> Le 2014-08-22 09:56, Norman Geist a écrit :
> > So did you try using "EXACLTY" 8 cores?
> >
> > Norman Geist.
> >
> >> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> >> Von: owner-namd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu [mailto:owner-namd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu] Im
> >> Auftrag von Maxime Boissonneault
> >> Gesendet: Freitag, 22. August 2014 15:23
> >> An: Norman Geist
> >> Cc: Namd Mailing List
> >> Betreff: Re: AW: AW: namd-l: FATAL ERROR: PME offload requires
> exactly
> >> one CUDA device per process.
> >>
> >> There are 8 K20 GPUs per node.
> >>
> >> I was hoping to be able to use the multicore binaries instead of the
> >> MPI
> >> one.
> >>
> >> Maxime
> >>
> >> Le 2014-08-22 09:21, Norman Geist a écrit :
> >>> How many GPUs do you have?
> >>>
> >>> Norman Geist.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> >>>> Von: Maxime Boissonneault
> >> [mailto:maxime.boissonneault_at_calculquebec.ca]
> >>>> Gesendet: Freitag, 22. August 2014 14:45
> >>>> An: Norman Geist
> >>>> Betreff: Re: AW: namd-l: FATAL ERROR: PME offload requires exactly
> >> one
> >>>> CUDA device per process.
> >>>>
> >>>> Threads do not work.
> >>>>
> >>>> So that means that it is impossible to do PME offload on multiple
> >> GPUs
> >>>> without MPI.
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks,
> >>>>
> >>>> Maxime
> >>>>
> >>>> Le 2014-08-22 08:44, Norman Geist a écrit :
> >>>>> I guess the message tells everything. You need to start more
> >>>> processes.
> >>>>> Maybe also threads will work so +ppn
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Norman Geist.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> >>>>>> Von: owner-namd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu [mailto:owner-namd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu]
> Im
> >>>>>> Auftrag von Maxime Boissonneault
> >>>>>> Gesendet: Freitag, 22. August 2014 13:40
> >>>>>> An: Namd Mailing List
> >>>>>> Betreff: namd-l: FATAL ERROR: PME offload requires exactly one
> >> CUDA
> >>>>>> device per process.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Hi,
> >>>>>> I'm getting this error for some computations using the Multicore
> >>>>>> binary.
> >>>>>> FATAL ERROR: PME offload requires exactly one CUDA device per
> >>>> process.
> >>>>>> I was wondering, is it a matter of configuration of the problem,
> >> or
> >>>>>> just
> >>>>>> of the problem size ? I understand I can use the MPI binary to
> >>>> address
> >>>>>> that and use multiple GPUs, but I'm wondering if I can use the
> >>>>>> multicore
> >>>>>> one (because it performs slightly better than the MPI one).
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Thanks,
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
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