[Beowulf] [External] Re: LINPACK for GPUs

Richard Walsh rbwcnslt at gmail.com
Thu Aug 15 03:43:25 PDT 2019


M,

I have no intention of sharing what I have used, I was just remarking on what is current relative to the obsolete downloadable Fermi version and how one might get it ... and yes, get it, under NDA.

R


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> On Aug 14, 2019, at 11:14 PM, Matt Wallis <mattw at madmonks.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> NVIDIA has a version of HPL floating around, but will only supply it under NDA, and you’re definitely not allowed to share the version you have. Not that that doesn’t happen of course, but NVIDIA would definitely prefer you didn’t.
> 
> Matt.
> 
>> Matt Wallis
> mattw at madmonks.org
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> On 15 Aug 2019, at 07:42, Richard Walsh <rbwcnslt at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> You have to talk to the right people at NVIDIA ... benchmarking group.
>> 
>> The version I am using from 2018 is:
>> 
>>   xhpl_cuda9.2.88_mkl_2018_ompi_3.1.0_gcc485_sm35_sm60_sm70_5_ 18_18
>> 
>> but there must be something more current than that now.   This one works out
>> through the V100 as the name implies.
>> 
>> rbw
>> 
>>> On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 12:31 PM Michael Di Domenico <mdidomenico4 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> yeah, i'm not surprised.  the original developer did it as part of a
>>> research project i believe.  it was never updated after he wrote the
>>> paper and published.
>>> 
>>> i wish nvidia would release the hpcg benchmark source code.  all you
>>> can get is the precompiled binaries which i can't use.  i've asked my
>>> contacts, but i guess i don't have enough sway. :(
>>> 
>>> On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 1:12 PM Prentice Bisbal via Beowulf
>>> <beowulf at beowulf.org> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > I looked into this further, and the version available is for the Fermi
>>> > GPUs, and doesn't really work with the V100 GPUs we have in our target
>>> > system. :(
>>> >
>>> > --
>>> > Prentice
>>> >
>>> > On 8/14/19 11:17 AM, Michael Di Domenico wrote:
>>> > > gpu linpack from nvidia is available via the developer portal.  but
>>> > > you can probably also reach out to the developer directly, he's
>>> > > friendly.
>>> > >
>>> > > though they haven't updated it in a long time, not sure if it still
>>> > > runs on the newer cards.
>>> > >
>>> > > On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 11:15 AM Prentice Bisbal via Beowulf
>>> > > <beowulf at beowulf.org> wrote:
>>> > >> I have a new GPU-based cluster that I'd like to bench mark with
>>> > >> High-Performance LINPACK (HPL). Does anyone know where I can get a
>>> > >> version of HPL written for GPUs? I know NVIDIA has a version, and I've
>>> > >> already reached out to NVIDIA to see if they'll share their version with
>>> > >> me. I just figured I'd ask here, in case there are other sources.
>>> > >>
>>> > >> --
>>> > >> Prentice
>>> > >>
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