From 069a0b04d76282f24f1941c3dac4a2629a0a57c1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Benoit Steiner Date: Fri, 13 May 2016 14:32:17 -0700 Subject: Added benchmarks for contraction on CPU. --- bench/tensors/README | 9 ++++++--- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'bench/tensors/README') diff --git a/bench/tensors/README b/bench/tensors/README index 4398aa81b..de1480317 100644 --- a/bench/tensors/README +++ b/bench/tensors/README @@ -1,4 +1,6 @@ -Each benchmark comes in 2 flavors: one that runs on CPU, and one that runs on GPU. +The tensor benchmark suite is made of several parts. + +The first part is a generic suite, in which each benchmark comes in 2 flavors: one that runs on CPU, and one that runs on GPU. To compile the floating point CPU benchmarks, simply call: g++ tensor_benchmarks_cpu.cc benchmark_main.cc -I ../../ -std=c++11 -O3 -DNDEBUG -pthread -mavx -o benchmarks_cpu @@ -6,7 +8,8 @@ g++ tensor_benchmarks_cpu.cc benchmark_main.cc -I ../../ -std=c++11 -O3 -DNDEBUG To compile the floating point GPU benchmarks, simply call: nvcc tensor_benchmarks_gpu.cu benchmark_main.cc -I ../../ -std=c++11 -O2 -DNDEBUG -arch compute_35 -o benchmarks_gpu - -To compile the half float GPU benchmarks, simply call the command line below. You'll need a recent GPU that supports compute capability 5.3 or higher to run them and nvcc 7.5 or higher to compile the code. +We also provide a version of the generic GPU tensor benchmarks that uses half floats (aka fp16) instead of regular floats. To compile these benchmarks, simply call the command line below. You'll need a recent GPU that supports compute capability 5.3 or higher to run them and nvcc 7.5 or higher to compile the code. nvcc tensor_benchmarks_fp16_gpu.cu benchmark_main.cc -I ../../ -std=c++11 -O2 -DNDEBUG -arch compute_53 -o benchmarks_fp16_gpu +last but not least, we also provide a suite of benchmarks to measure the scalability of the contraction code on CPU. To compile these benchmarks, call +g++ contraction_benchmarks_cpu.cc benchmark_main.cc -I ../../ -std=c++11 -O3 -DNDEBUG -pthread -mavx -o benchmarks_cpu -- cgit v1.2.3