From: "=?UTF-8?Q?Ren=c3=a9_Widera?= r.widera@hzdr.de" Received: from [149.220.63.125] (account widera@hzdr.de [149.220.63.125] verified) by hzdr.de (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 6.2.4) with ESMTPSA id 19551130 for picongpu-users@hzdr.de; Mon, 14 May 2018 13:18:22 +0200 Subject: Re: [PIConGPU-Users] DGX-1 To: picongpu-users@hzdr.de References: Message-ID: <908f60ef-18be-36be-657a-78a1dcb4a7ac@hzdr.de> Date: Mon, 14 May 2018 13:18:22 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Dear Andrei, > My question is, would PIConGPU run on the DGX-1 and can it make use of NVLink [2] v2.0? Currently we are not using NVLink. But it is planed to add support for MPI GPU-Direct which should than use NVLink. > Also, I'm guessing it can't use the tensor cores in the V100 version of DGX-1? Currently we are not using tensor cores. It is not fully clear if tensor cores will give an advantage. ONe drawback of the tensor cores is that the using fp16. In PIConGPU we use at least fp32 if you not activate fp64 support. Never the less I think a DGX-1 with V100 is the right system. René (psychocoderHPC) On 05/14/2018 12:36 PM, Andrei Berceanu berceanu@runbox.com wrote: > Hi, > > First of all, let me provide some context: we are considering purchasing a DGX-1 system [1] from Nvidia for PIConGPU and are trying to decide between the P100 and V100 versions. > > My question is, would PIConGPU run on the DGX-1 and can it make use of NVLink [2] v2.0? > > Also, I'm guessing it can't use the tensor cores in the V100 version of DGX-1? > > Regards, > Andrei > > [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia_DGX-1 > [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NVLink > ############################################################# > This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list . > To unsubscribe, E-mail to: > To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to > To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to > Send administrative queries to > -- René Widera Phone: +49 351 260 3543 Institute of Radiation Physics http://www.hzdr.de/crp Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden - Rossendorf (HZDR) Bautzner Landstr. 400 | 01328 Dresden | Germany Board of Directors: Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Roland Sauerbrey, Dr. Ulrich Breuer Company Registration Number VR 1693, Amtsgericht Dresden