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Re: [Starpu-devel] Questions around StarPU


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  • From: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
  • To: Ronan Keryell <Ronan.Keryell@hpc-project.com>
  • Cc: Stephanie Even <Stephanie.Even@hpc-project.com>, starpu-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr
  • Subject: Re: [Starpu-devel] Questions around StarPU
  • Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 23:37:45 +0200
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Ronan Keryell, le Wed 21 Sep 2011 14:36:15 -0700, a écrit :
> >>>>> On Wed, 21 Sep 2011 19:10:51 +0200, Samuel Thibault
> >>>>> <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> said:
> Samuel> If the user uses malloc before registering, the memory won't
> Samuel> be pinned. The user needs to either call cudaMalloc, or use
> Samuel> starpu_malloc() to get pinned memory (the latter will always
> Samuel> work whether CUDA is available or not).
>
> I'm curious about how it can work if you use CUDA over StarPU over
> MPI for example...
>
> It sounds to me that this "pinned" allocation has to be done then at the
> StarPU proxy on the remote host?

What do you call "StarPU proxy"? Whenever StarPU allocates a buffer for
some handle, it uses pinned allocation.

> Idem in OpenCL with the equivalent buffer creation options?

Yes.

Samuel





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