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Re: CUDADot bug?

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• Subject: [mg115706] Re: CUDADot bug?
• From: "Sjoerd C. de Vries" <sjoerd.c.devries at gmail.com>
• Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 05:23:31 -0500 (EST)
• References: <201101171036.FAA19818@smc.vnet.net> <ih3r4m$b83$1@smc.vnet.net>

My Dell XPS-15 laptop with NVidia GT435M graphics crashed on this
input. I got  the response to the first set of matrices and then the
screen turned black and nothing I tried could bring the system back
alive. I ended up doing a complete power down. I don't think I'll try
again.

Cheers -- Sjoerd

On Jan 18, 11:47 am, Ulrich Arndt <ulrich.ar... at data2knowledge.de>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I tested CUDADot as I need to do some bigger matrix multiplications.
>
> But I found a not so nice feature.
> I generated two random matrices
> Then I calculate the Dot and CUDADot of the two matrixes.
> For dim = 5000 the results are not the same but CUDADot does not report any error messages...
> For dim = 3000 the result are the same and CUDADot needs only 1/3 of the time.
>
> Not very nice...
> Is this HW / SW related? Or a general bug?
>
> Ulrich
>
> In[1]:= Needs["CUDALink`"]
>
> In[2]:= CUDAQ[]
> CUDAInformation[1, "Name"]
> $Version
>
> Out[2]= True
>
> Out[3]= "GeForce GT 330M"
>
> Out[4]= "8.0 for Mac OS X x86 (64-bit) (November 6, 2010)"
>
> In[5]:= Clear[r1Mat, r2Mat, aMat, bMat];
> dim = 5000;
> aMat = RandomInteger[1, {dim, dim}];
> bMat = RandomInteger[1, {dim, dim}];
>
> In[9]:= AbsoluteTiming[r1Mat = aMat.bMat;]
> AbsoluteTiming[r2Mat = CUDADot[aMat, bMat];]
> r1Mat == r2Mat
>
> Out[9]= {87.180122, Null}
>
> Out[10]= {1.193608, Null}
>
> Out[11]= False
>
> In[12]:= r1Mat[[1 ;; 10, 1 ;; 10]]
> r2Mat[[1 ;; 10, 1 ;; 10]]
>
> Out[12]= {{1318, 1282, 1236, 1256, 1258, 1256, 1242, 1287, 1268,
>   1258}, {1233, 1204, 1218, 1211, 1185, 1173, 1163, 1209, 1221,
>   1179}, {1287, 1248, 1249, 1289, 1259, 1246, 1261, 1304, 1296,
>   1267}, {1331, 1254, 1266, 1246, 1284, 1225, 1264, 1300, 1314,
>   1299}, {1279, 1223, 1247, 1263, 1226, 1231, 1150, 1238, 1251,
>   1240}, {1332, 1288, 1268, 1282, 1285, 1284, 1286, 1331, 1293,
>   1272}, {1293, 1246, 1269, 1266, 1262, 1237, 1234, 1276, 1297,
>   1255}, {1261, 1268, 1230, 1243, 1228, 1228, 1198, 1238, 1260,
>   1227}, {1299, 1240, 1231, 1237, 1239, 1269, 1193, 1236, 1282,
>   1251}, {1256, 1250, 1247, 1259, 1252, 1167, 1214, 1233, 1254, 1231}}
>
> Out[13]= {{0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0}, {0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
>   0}, {0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0}, {0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
>   0}, {0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0}, {0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
>   0}, {0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0}, {0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
>   0}, {0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0}, {0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0}}
>
> In[14]:= Clear[r1Mat, r2Mat, aMat, bMat];
> dim = 3000;
> aMat = RandomInteger[1, {dim, dim}];
> bMat = RandomInteger[1, {dim, dim}];
>
> In[18]:= AbsoluteTiming[r1Mat = aMat.bMat;]
> AbsoluteTiming[r2Mat = CUDADot[aMat, bMat];]
> r1Mat == r2Mat
>
> Out[18]= {19.341160, Null}
>
> Out[19]= {6.500759, Null}
>
> Out[20]= True
>
> In[21]:= r1Mat[[1 ;; 10, 1 ;; 10]]
> r2Mat[[1 ;; 10, 1 ;; 10]]
>
> Out[21]= {{762, 707, 721, 719, 741, 753, 728, 742, 715, 685}, {761,
>   727, 743, 744, 766, 743, 755, 747, 755, 723}, {739, 708, 733, 722,
>   727, 737, 721, 747, 747, 711}, {766, 711, 748, 751, 751, 761, 752,
>   733, 761, 705}, {761, 746, 759, 771, 769, 783, 750, 743, 808,
>   721}, {789, 783, 775, 800, 808, 779, 771, 769, 801, 730}, {742, 706,
>    748, 754, 720, 736, 750, 737, 743, 736}, {741, 718, 710, 740, 712,
>   739, 757, 727, 719, 732}, {783, 721, 733, 722, 749, 759, 750, 743,
>   748, 748}, {752, 737, 719, 713, 753, 768, 733, 716, 760, 728}}
>
> Out[22]= {{762, 707, 721, 719, 741, 753, 728, 742, 715, 685}, {761,
>   727, 743, 744, 766, 743, 755, 747, 755, 723}, {739, 708, 733, 722,
>   727, 737, 721, 747, 747, 711}, {766, 711, 748, 751, 751, 761, 752,
>   733, 761, 705}, {761, 746, 759, 771, 769, 783, 750, 743, 808,
>   721}, {789, 783, 775, 800, 808, 779, 771, 769, 801, 730}, {742, 706,
>    748, 754, 720, 736, 750, 737, 743, 736}, {741, 718, 710, 740, 712,
>   739, 757, 727, 719, 732}, {783, 721, 733, 722, 749, 759, 750, 743,
>   748, 748}, {752, 737, 719, 713, 753, 768, 733, 716, 760, 728}}=

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