Remove the CPU hardware context from the general list of test hardware contexts
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36 /*! \libinternal \file
37 * \brief Declares functions to manage GPU resources.
39 * This has several implementations: one for each supported GPU platform,
40 * and a stub implementation if the build does not support GPUs.
42 * \author Anca Hamuraru <anca@streamcomputing.eu>
43 * \author Dimitrios Karkoulis <dimitris.karkoulis@gmail.com>
44 * \author Teemu Virolainen <teemu@streamcomputing.eu>
45 * \author Mark Abraham <mark.j.abraham@gmail.com>
46 * \author Szilárd Páll <pall.szilard@gmail.com>
47 * \author Artem Zhmurov <zhmurov@gmail.com>
49 * \inlibraryapi
50 * \ingroup module_hardware
52 #ifndef GMX_HARDWARE_DEVICE_MANAGEMENT_H
53 #define GMX_HARDWARE_DEVICE_MANAGEMENT_H
55 #include <memory>
56 #include <string>
57 #include <vector>
59 #include "gromacs/utility/basedefinitions.h"
60 #include "gromacs/utility/iserializer.h"
62 struct DeviceInformation;
64 /*! \brief Return whether GPUs can be detected.
66 * Returns true when this is a build of GROMACS configured to support
67 * GPU usage, GPU detection is not disabled by \c GMX_DISABLE_GPU_DETECTION
68 * environment variable and a valid device driver, ICD, and/or runtime was
69 * detected. Does not throw.
71 * \param[out] errorMessage When returning false on a build configured with
72 * GPU support and non-nullptr was passed,
73 * the string contains a descriptive message about
74 * why GPUs cannot be detected.
76 bool canPerformDeviceDetection(std::string* errorMessage);
78 /*! \brief Return whether GPU detection is enabled
80 * Returns true when this is a build of GROMACS configured to support
81 * GPU usage and GPU detection is not disabled by \c GMX_DISABLE_GPU_DETECTION
82 * environment variable.
84 * Does not throw.
86 bool isDeviceDetectionEnabled();
88 /*! \brief Return whether GPU detection is functioning correctly
90 * Returns true when this is a build of GROMACS configured to support
91 * GPU usage, and a valid device driver, ICD, and/or runtime was detected.
93 * This function is not intended to be called from build
94 * configurations that do not support GPUs, and there will be no
95 * descriptive message in that case.
97 * \param[out] errorMessage When returning false on a build configured with
98 * GPU support and non-nullptr was passed,
99 * the string contains a descriptive message about
100 * why GPUs cannot be detected.
102 * Does not throw.
104 bool isDeviceDetectionFunctional(std::string* errorMessage);
106 /*! \brief Checks if one can compute on the GPU
108 * \returns True if the build supports GPUs and there are at least one available.
110 bool canComputeOnDevice();
112 /*! \brief Find all GPUs in the system.
114 * Will detect every GPU supported by the device driver in use.
115 * Must only be called if \c canPerformDeviceDetection() has returned true.
116 * This routine also checks for the compatibility of each device and fill the
117 * deviceInfo array with the required information on each device: ID, device
118 * properties, status.
120 * Note that this function leaves the GPU runtime API error state clean;
121 * this is implemented ATM in the CUDA flavor. This invalidates any existing
122 * CUDA streams, allocated memory on GPU, etc.
124 * \todo: Check if errors do propagate in OpenCL as they do in CUDA and
125 * whether there is a mechanism to "clear" them.
127 * \return Standard vector with the list of devices found
129 * \throws InternalError if a GPU API returns an unexpected failure (because
130 * the call to canDetectGpus() should always prevent this occuring)
132 std::vector<std::unique_ptr<DeviceInformation>> findDevices();
134 /*! \brief Return a container of the detected GPU ids that are compatible.
136 * This function filters the result of the detection for compatible
137 * GPUs, based on the previously run compatibility tests.
139 * \param[in] deviceInfoList An information on available devices.
141 * \return Vector of DeviceInformations on GPUs recorded as compatible
143 std::vector<std::reference_wrapper<DeviceInformation>>
144 getCompatibleDevices(const std::vector<std::unique_ptr<DeviceInformation>>& deviceInfoList);
146 /*! \brief Set the active GPU.
148 * This sets the device for which the device information is passed active. Essential in CUDA, where
149 * the device buffers and kernel launches are not connected to the device context. In OpenCL, checks
150 * the device vendor and makes vendor-specific performance adjustments.
152 * \param[in] deviceInfo Information on the device to be set.
154 * Issues a fatal error for any critical errors that occur during
155 * initialization.
157 void setActiveDevice(const DeviceInformation& deviceInfo);
159 /*! \brief Releases the GPU device used by the active context at the time of calling (CUDA only).
161 * If \c deviceInfo is nullptr, then it is understood that no device
162 * was selected so no context is active to be freed. Otherwise, the
163 * context is explicitly destroyed and therefore all data uploaded to
164 * the GPU is lost. This must only be called when none of this data is
165 * required anymore, because subsequent attempts to free memory
166 * associated with the context will otherwise fail.
168 * Calls \c gmx_warning upon errors.
170 * \todo This should go through all the devices, not only the one currently active.
171 * Reseting only one device will not work, e.g. in CUDA tests.
173 * \param[in] deviceInfo Information on the device to be released.
175 void releaseDevice(DeviceInformation* deviceInfo);
177 /*! \brief Formats and returns a device information string for a given GPU.
179 * Given an index *directly* into the array of available GPUs, returns
180 * a formatted info string for the respective GPU which includes ID, name,
181 * compute capability, and detection status.
183 * \param[in] deviceInfo An information on device that is to be set.
185 * \returns A string describing the device.
187 std::string getDeviceInformationString(const DeviceInformation& deviceInfo);
189 /*! \brief Return a string describing how compatible the GPU with given \c deviceId is.
191 * \param[in] deviceInfoList An information on available devices.
192 * \param[in] deviceId An index of the device to check
193 * \returns A string describing the compatibility status, useful for error messages.
195 std::string getDeviceCompatibilityDescription(const std::vector<std::unique_ptr<DeviceInformation>>& deviceInfoList,
196 int deviceId);
198 /*! \brief Serialization of information on devices for MPI broadcasting.
200 * \param[in] deviceInfoList The vector with device informations to serialize.
201 * \param[in] serializer Serializing object.
203 void serializeDeviceInformations(const std::vector<std::unique_ptr<DeviceInformation>>& deviceInfoList,
204 gmx::ISerializer* serializer);
206 /*! \brief Deserialization of information on devices after MPI broadcasting.
208 * \param[in] serializer Serializing object.
210 * \return deviceInfoList Deserialized vector with device informations.
212 std::vector<std::unique_ptr<DeviceInformation>> deserializeDeviceInformations(gmx::ISerializer* serializer);
214 #endif // GMX_HARDWARE_DEVICE_MANAGEMENT_H