[gmx-users] Gromacs and Radeon Nano

[Mark Abraham]

Hi,

On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 2:29 AM <melichercik at leaf.nh.cas.cz> wrote:

> Hi people,
> I have computer with 2x Xeon E5-2660 with Radeon Fury (as someone here
> recomended it as quite decent card (not the best one ;-) of course ).
> System is debian (testing). I have previously R9 280X instead and it worked
> without problem. After I replaced less power hungry Radeon Fury, it freezes
> the machine from time to time (but at least one a day) or in better case
> segfaults gromacs. I tryied latest fglrx (15.12) and all amdgpu-pro (16.40,
> 16.50 and 16.60) and gromacs (I think) all versions from 5.1 to 2016.2.
> With exception of latest Amdgpu-pro 16.60 which totaly failed in runing
> OpenCL-enabled GMX, it gets better in time, but it still crashes. So do
> have someone any idea wich could help?
>

Unfortunately, there's not much to say. GROMACS simply calls the OpenCL API
to find devices, so if it is confused about life, then it's game over for
GROMACS. Your symptoms seem most consistent with aspects of multiple OpenCL
libraries or AMD drivers co-existing poorly. So make sure you take steps to
clean properly between attempts (if possible). Frankly, I'd be considering
a fresh OS installation. Beware also that sometimes the OpenCL library can
come from the OS and not the driver install, and that can be problematic.

Thanks in advance.
>
> Best,
>
> Milan
>
> PS: PSU is EVGA Supernova B2 750 W, which should be quite enough (and more
> hungry R9 280X worked) and it should be quite good PSU (by Tier2 of Tom's
> Hardware list)
> PS2: maybe it is not important, but I think I have tested/simulated only
> .tpr created in older versions of GMX than 2016.x (which I used mostly for
> simulating)
> PS3: why is all Radeon GPU using amdgpu-pro detected twice? ()see below)
> (at least I have tested with Radeon Nano and RX460 cards). And the 2nd one
> doesn't work, I have to use -gpu_id parameter.
>

Sounds like the runtime is finding two drivers and they're doing an
inconsistent job detecting the same hardware.

Mark


> Hardware detected:
>   CPU info:
>     Vendor: Intel
>     Brand:  Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2660 0 @ 2.20GHz
>     SIMD instructions most likely to fit this hardware: AVX_256
>     SIMD instructions selected at GROMACS compile time: AVX_256
>
>   Hardware topology: Full, with devices
>   GPU info:
>     Number of GPUs detected: 2
>     #0: name: Fiji, vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., device version:
> OpenCL 1.2 AMD-APP (2236.5), stat: compatible
>     #1: name: AMD FIJI (DRM 3.8.0 / 4.9.0-1-amd64, LLVM 3.9.1), vendor:
> AMD, device version: OpenCL 1.1 Mesa 13.0.3, stat: compatible
>
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