Data should be kept on the device as long as possible. Because transfers should be minimized, programs that run multiple kernels on the same data should favor leaving the data on the device between kernel calls, rather than transferring intermediate results to the host and then sending them back to the device for subsequent calculations. So, in the previous example, had the two matrices to be added already been on the device as a result of some previous calculation, or if the results of the addition would be used in some subsequent calculation, the matrix addition should be performed locally on the device. This approach should be used even if one of the steps in a sequence of calculations could be performed faster on the host. Even a relatively slow kernel may be advantageous if it avoids one or more transfers between host and device memory. Data Transfer Between Host and Device provides further details, including the measurements of bandwidth between the host and the device versus within the device proper.
The Requested Global Load Throughput and Requested Global Store Throughput values indicate the global memory throughput requested by the kernel and therefore correspond to the effective bandwidth obtained by the calculation shown under Effective Bandwidth Calculation.
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The peak theoretical bandwidth between the device memory and the GPU is much higher (898 GB/s on the NVIDIA Tesla V100, for example) than the peak theoretical bandwidth between host memory and device memory (16 GB/s on the PCIe x16 Gen3). Hence, for best overall application performance, it is important to minimize data transfer between the host and the device, even if that means running kernels on the GPU that do not demonstrate any speedup compared with running them on the host CPU.
In A copy kernel that illustrates misaligned accesses, data is copied from the input array idata to the output array, both of which exist in global memory. The kernel is executed within a loop in host code that varies the parameter offset from 0 to 32. (e.g. Figure 4 corresponds to this misalignments) The effective bandwidth for the copy with various offsets on an NVIDIA Tesla V100 (compute capability 7.0) is shown in Figure 5.
To illustrate the effect of strided access on effective bandwidth, see the kernel strideCopy() in A kernel to illustrate non-unit stride data copy, which copies data with a stride of stride elements between threads from idata to odata.
The effective bandwidth of this kernel is 119.9 GB/s on an NVIDIA Tesla V100. To analyze performance, it is necessary to consider how warps access global memory in the for loop. Each warp of threads calculates one row of a tile of C, which depends on a single row of A and an entire tile of B as illustrated in Figure 12.
In Using shared memory to improve the global memory load efficiency in matrix multiplication, each element in a tile of A is read from global memory only once, in a fully coalesced fashion (with no wasted bandwidth), to shared memory. Within each iteration of the for loop, a value in shared memory is broadcast to all threads in a warp. Instead of a __syncthreads()synchronization barrier call, a __syncwarp() is sufficient after reading the tile of A into shared memory because only threads within the warp that write the data into shared memory read this data. This kernel has an effective bandwidth of 144.4 GB/s on an NVIDIA Tesla V100. This illustrates the use of the shared memory as a user-managed cache when the hardware L1 cache eviction policy does not match up well with the needs of the application or when L1 cache is not used for reads from global memory.
In Unoptimized handling of strided accesses to global memory, the row-th, col-th element of C is obtained by taking the dot product of the row-th and col-th rows of A. The effective bandwidth for this kernel is 12.8 GB/s on an NVIDIA Tesla V100. These results are substantially lower than the corresponding measurements for the C = AB kernel. The difference is in how threads in a half warp access elements of A in the second term, a[col*TILE_DIM+i], for each iteration i. For a warp of threads, col represents sequential columns of the transpose of A, and therefore col*TILE_DIM represents a strided access of global memory with a stride of w, resulting in plenty of wasted bandwidth.
An optimized handling of strided accesses using coalesced reads from global memory uses the shared transposedTile to avoid uncoalesced accesses in the second term in the dot product and the shared aTile technique from the previous example to avoid uncoalesced accesses in the first term. The effective bandwidth of this kernel is 140.2 GB/s on an NVIDIA Tesla V100.These results are lower than those obtained by the final kernel for C = AB. The cause of the difference is shared memory bank conflicts.
This padding eliminates the conflicts entirely, because now the stride between threads is w+1 banks (i.e., 33 for current devices), which, due to modulo arithmetic used to compute bank indices, is equivalent to a unit stride. After this change, the effective bandwidth is 199.4 GB/s on an NVIDIA Tesla V100, which is comparable to the results from the last C = AB kernel.
(Optional) Connect to your instance and try reinstalling the ena module with your current kernel version by following the steps in Enable enhanced networking with the Elastic Network Adapter (ENA) on Linux instances.
The default topology is the minimal topology, which includes one OpenFlow kernel switch connected to two hosts, plus the OpenFlow reference controller. This topology could also be specified on the command line with --topo=minimal. Other topologies are also available out of the box; see the --topo section in the output of mn -h.
A kernel distribution is a nonparametric representation of the probability density function (pdf) of a random variable. You can use a kernel distribution when a parametric distribution cannot properly describe the data, or when you want to avoid making assumptions about the distribution of the data. A kernel distribution is defined by a smoothing function and a bandwidth value, which control the smoothness of the resulting density curve.
The default bandwidth, which is theoretically optimal for estimating densities for the normal distribution [1], produces a reasonably smooth curve. Specifying a smaller bandwidth produces a very rough curve, but reveals that there might be two major peaks in the data. Specifying a larger bandwidth produces a curve nearly identical to the kernel function, and is so smooth that it obscures potentially important features of the data.
If the bandwidth is not held fixed, but is varied depending upon the location of either the estimate (balloon estimator) or the samples (pointwise estimator), this produces a particularly powerful method termed adaptive or variable bandwidth kernel density estimation.
In this example, both disks are jumpered as Master onseparate channels on the same controller. You would never want tohave both disks on the same bus on the same controller; thiscreates a single point of failure. Ideally you would have thedisks on separate channels on separate controllers. Some SCSIcontrollers have multiple channels on the same controller,however, a SCSI bus reset on one channel could adversely affectthe other channel if the ASIC/IC becomes overloaded. Thetrade-off with two controllers is that twice the bandwidth is usedon the system bus. For purposes of simplification, this exampleshows two disks on different channels on the samecontroller.
If APST is enabled but no non-zero states appear in the table, the latencies might be too high for any states to be enabled by default. The output of nvme id-ctrl /dev/nvme[0-9] (as the root user) should show the available non-operational power states of the NVME controller. If the total latency of any state (enlat + xlat) is greater than 25000 (25ms) you must pass a value at least that high as parameter default_ps_max_latency_us for the nvme_core kernel module. This should enable APST and make the table in nvme get-feature (as the root user) show the entries. 2ff7e9595c
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