Is MAGMA really hybrid?

[jreybert]

Hello,

According to magma-v02 documentation, magma should be able to balance work upon cores and GPU. Is it functionnal with magma 0.2?

I am trying MAGMA 0.2 on multicore + GPU machines. The configuration is:
2 x Intel Xeon E5520 => 8 cores
2 x Tesla C1060 (I know Magma only use one GPU)
HyperThreading disabled

I run some test programs provided with magma, with 8 and 4 OpenMP threads.

e.g, for testing_cgeqrf, which time both cgeqrf for MKL and MAGMA libraries, I get these timings:

• with 8 omp threads: MKL: 119.38 GFlops - MAGMA 69.66 GFlops
• with 4 omp threads: MKL: 62.33 GFlops - MAGMA 69.29 GFlops

=> Number of threads does not affect MAGMA performances.

I did not run these tests with all the MAGMA functions. So my questions are:

• are all the MAGMA functions hybrid?
• if the tested function is, why the number of threads does not affect the performances?

Extra question: is a v3 is scheduled, with the management of several GPUs?

[KevinWilson88]

Hi,

I'm not sure myself but I'm also interested in finding out the answer to your question. I found the following document on Magma 0.2 quite informative. May be you will also find your answers there. Check it out http://icl.cs.utk.edu/graphics/posters/ ... A-2009.pdf

Good luck!
Kevin

[mtacconi]

A rapid look to the library symbol table shows no evidence of undefined reference to whatsoever calls to OpenMP or multithread runtime library.
I would say that this binary release of magma is single CPU threaded / single GPU.

[kusario]

that would be a great pitty cause of the speed we could achieve by that with hybrid multicores.