Friday, November 19, 2010

Using SGC-Ruby-CUDA on the Newly Launched Amazon EC2 Cluster GPU

Wonder if GPU works for you? No budget for a system with decent GPU? Installations and configurations are too much trouble for you? You can now try out SGC-Ruby-CUDA on Amazon EC2 with the system image, located at US East Virginia zone, called SGCRubyCUDA.1 which is available as a community AMI.

Compile for rubycu shared library and run tests.

[root@ip-10-17-130-174 sgc-ruby-cuda.git]# rake
(in /root/sgc-ruby-cuda.git)
checking for main() in -lcuda... yes
creating Makefile
g++44 -I. -I/usr/local/include/ruby-1.9.1/x86_64-linux -I/usr/local/include/ruby-1.9.1/ruby/backward -I/usr/local/include/ruby-1.9.1 -I.   -fPIC -O3 -ggdb -Wextra -Wno-unused-parameter -Wno-parentheses -Wpointer-arith -Wwrite-strings -Wno-missing-field-initializers -Wno-long-long   -o rubycu.o -c rubycu.cpp
g++44 -shared -o rubycu.so rubycu.o -L. -L/usr/local/lib -Wl,-R/usr/local/lib -L.  -rdynamic -Wl,-export-dynamic   -lcuda  -lpthread -lrt -ldl -lcrypt -lm   -lc

[root@ip-10-17-130-174 sgc-ruby-cuda.git]# rake test
(in /root/sgc-ruby-cuda.git)
/usr/local/bin/ruby -I"lib:lib" "/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rake/rake_test_loader.rb" "test/test_rubycu.rb" 
Loaded suite /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rake/rake_test_loader
Started
......................
Finished in 89.055900 seconds.

22 tests, 99 assertions, 0 failures, 0 errors, 0 skips

Test run options: --seed 25668

Compile for rubygems then install it and try some SGC-Ruby-CUDA APIs.

[root@ip-10-17-130-174 sgc-ruby-cuda.git]# rake gem
(in /root/sgc-ruby-cuda.git)
mkdir -p pkg
  Successfully built RubyGem
  Name: sgc-ruby-cuda
  Version: 0.0.1
  File: sgc-ruby-cuda-0.0.1-x86_64-linux.gem
mv sgc-ruby-cuda-0.0.1-x86_64-linux.gem pkg/sgc-ruby-cuda-0.0.1-x86_64-linux.gem

[root@ip-10-17-130-174 sgc-ruby-cuda.git]# cd pkg
[root@ip-10-17-130-174 pkg]# gem install sgc-ruby-cuda-0.0.1-x86_64-linux.gem 
Successfully installed sgc-ruby-cuda-0.0.1-x86_64-linux
1 gem installed
Installing ri documentation for sgc-ruby-cuda-0.0.1-x86_64-linux...
Installing RDoc documentation for sgc-ruby-cuda-0.0.1-x86_64-linux...

[root@ip-10-17-130-174 pkg]# gem list

*** LOCAL GEMS ***

minitest (1.6.0)
rake (0.8.7)
rdoc (2.5.8)
sgc-ruby-cuda (0.0.1 x86_64-linux)

[root@ip-10-17-130-174 pkg]# irb
irb(main):001:0> require 'rubycu'
=> true
irb(main):002:0> include SGC::CU
=> Object
irb(main):004:0> CUDevice.get_count
=> 2
irb(main):005:0> d = CUDevice.get(0)
=> #<SGC::CU::CUDevice:0x0000000908c920>
irb(main):006:0> c = CUContext.new.create(0, d)
=> #<SGC::CU::CUContext:0x0000000907af40>
irb(main):007:0> d.get_name
=> "Tesla M2050"
irb(main):009:0> d.compute_capability
=> {:major=>2, :minor=>0}
irb(main):010:0> d.total_mem
=> 2817982464
Note: Remember to select Cluster GPU, when launching the instance.

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

GPU Anywhere with Cloud Computing

Simulation taking months to run? Buying and maintaining new systems causing too much hassle? Perhaps Cluster GPU would be a good candidate to save time and trouble. Cloud solution is an excellent platform for proof of concept before committed to a large system in-house.

Paying $2.10 per hour (Amazon pricing as of 16 Nov 2010) for the spec of:
22 GB of memory
33.5 EC2 Compute Units (2 x Intel Xeon X5570, quad-core "Nehalem" architecture)
2 x NVIDIA Tesla "Fermi" M2050 GPUs
1690 GB of instance storage
64-bit platform
I/O Performance: Very High (10 Gigabit Ethernet)
API name: cg1.4xlarge
That may not sound inexpensive in long run, but you now have the option to pay little for great fun, which is cheaper than a movie ticket. Get the systems for a few hours solving great puzzles. That sounds like an interesting weekend activity.

High Performance Computing Using Amazon EC2