Accel

Name AccelBenchmark
Section Execution::Accel
Type logical
Default no

If this variable is set to yes, Octopus will run some routines to benchmark the performance of the accelerator device.

Name AccelDevice
Section Execution::Accel
Type integer
Default gpu

This variable selects the OpenCL or CUDA accelerator device that Octopus will use. You can specify one of the options below or a numerical id to select a specific device.

Values >= 0 select the device to be used. In case of MPI enabled runs devices are distributed in a round robin fashion, starting at this value.

Options:

• gpu:
  If available, Octopus will use a GPU.
  
• cpu:
  If available, Octopus will use a CPU (only for OpenCL).
  
• accelerator:
  If available, Octopus will use an accelerator (only for OpenCL).
  
• accel_default:
  Octopus will use the default device specified by the implementation. implementation.
  

Name AccelPlatform
Section Execution::Accel
Type integer
Default 0

This variable selects the OpenCL platform that Octopus will use. You can give an explicit platform number or use one of the options that select a particular vendor implementation. Platform 0 is used by default.

This variable has no effect for CUDA.

Options:

• amd:
  Use the AMD OpenCL platform.
  
• nvidia:
  Use the Nvidia OpenCL platform.
  
• ati:
  Use the ATI (old AMD) OpenCL platform.
  
• intel:
  Use the Intel OpenCL platform.
  

Name AllowCPUonly
Section Execution::Accel
Type logical

In order to prevent waste of resources, the code will normally stop when the GPU is disabled due to incomplete implementations or incompatibilities. AllowCPUonly = yes overrides this and allows the code execution also in these cases.

Name CudaAwareMPI
Section Execution::Accel
Type logical

If Octopus was compiled with CUDA support and MPI support and if the MPI implementation is CUDA-aware (i.e., it supports communication using device pointers), this switch can be set to true to use the CUDA-aware MPI features. The advantage of this approach is that it can do, e.g., peer-to-peer copies between devices without going through the host memmory. The default is false, except when the configure switch –enable-cudampi is set, in which case this variable is set to true.

Name DisableAccel
Section Execution::Accel
Type logical
Default yes

If Octopus was compiled with OpenCL or CUDA support, it will try to initialize and use an accelerator device. By setting this variable to yes you force Octopus not to use an accelerator even it is available.