OpenMPI.py depends on cuda.py in that, if cuda is present, configures using cuda. MPI.py or MPICH.py do not depend on cuda.py (MPICH, only weakly, it adds a print if cuda is present)
Since eventually the MPI distro will only need a hint to be configured with CUDA, why not removing the dependency at all and add only a flag —download-openmpi-use-cuda?

On May 28, 2021, at 8:44 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith@petsc.dev> wrote:


 Stefano, who has a far better memory than me, wrote

> Or probably remove —download-openmpi ? Or, just for the moment, why can’t we just tell configure that mpi is a weak dependence of cuda.py, so that it will be forced to be configured later?

  MPI.py depends on cuda.py so we cannot also have cuda.py depend on MPI.py using the generic dependencies of configure/packages  

  but perhaps we can just hardwire the rerunning of cuda.py when the MPI compilers are reset. I will try that now and if I can get it to work we should be able to move those old fix branches along as MR.

  Barry



On May 28, 2021, at 12:41 PM, Mark Adams <mfadams@lbl.gov> wrote:

OK, I will try to rebase and test Barry's branch.

On Fri, May 28, 2021 at 1:26 PM Stefano Zampini <stefano.zampini@gmail.com> wrote:
Yes, it is the branch I was using before force pushing to Barry’s barry/2020-11-11/cleanup-matsetvaluesdevice
You can use both I guess

On May 28, 2021, at 8:25 PM, Mark Adams <mfadams@lbl.gov> wrote:

Is this the correct branch? It conflicted with ex5cu so I assume it is.


stefanozampini/simplify-setvalues-device

On Fri, May 28, 2021 at 1:24 PM Mark Adams <mfadams@lbl.gov> wrote:
I am fixing rebasing this branch over main.

On Fri, May 28, 2021 at 1:16 PM Stefano Zampini <stefano.zampini@gmail.com> wrote:
Or probably remove —download-openmpi ? Or, just for the moment, why can’t we just tell configure that mpi is a weak dependence of cuda.py, so that it will be forced to be configured later?

On May 28, 2021, at 8:12 PM, Stefano Zampini <stefano.zampini@gmail.com> wrote:

That branch provides a fix for MatSetValuesDevice but it never got merged because of the CI issues with the —download-openmpi. We can probably try to skip the test in that specific configuration?

On May 28, 2021, at 7:45 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith@petsc.dev> wrote:


~/petsc/src/mat/tutorials (barry/2021-05-28/robustify-cuda-gencodearch-check=) arch-robustify-cuda-gencodearch-check
$ ./ex5cu
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'thrust::system::system_error'
  what():  fill_n: failed to synchronize: cudaErrorIllegalAddress: an illegal memory access was encountered
Aborted (core dumped)

        requires: cuda !define(PETSC_USE_CTABLE)

  CI does not test with CUDA and no ctable.  The code is still broken as it was six months ago in the discussion Stefano pointed to. It is clear why just no one has had the time to clean things up.

  Barry


On May 28, 2021, at 11:13 AM, Mark Adams <mfadams@lbl.gov> wrote:



On Fri, May 28, 2021 at 11:57 AM Stefano Zampini <stefano.zampini@gmail.com> wrote:
If you are referring to your device set values, I guess it is not currently tested

No. There is a test for that (ex5cu).
I have a user that is getting a segv in MatSetValues with aijcusparse. I suspect there is memory corruption but I'm trying to cover all the bases.
I have added a cuda test to ksp/ex56 that works. I can do an MR for it if such a test does not exist.
 
See the discussions here https://gitlab.com/petsc/petsc/-/merge_requests/3411
I started cleaning up the code to prepare for testing but we never finished it https://gitlab.com/petsc/petsc/-/commits/stefanozampini/simplify-setvalues-device/


On May 28, 2021, at 6:53 PM, Mark Adams <mfadams@lbl.gov> wrote:

Is there a test with MatSetValues and CUDA?