- Mark as New
- Bookmark
- Subscribe
- Mute
- Subscribe to RSS Feed
- Permalink
- Report Inappropriate Content
I have been trying to get Anton's simple benchmark running on the Phi 31xx card. I have been told that the latest Intel Python distribution will auto-offload - It does not.
The user/environment can run the micperf and micsmc shows that the Phi is operating. I assume that if the micperf runs for a given user and shell environment then there is hope to get python running. Attached are some details about the environment - -m TBB does provide a speed increase because the host processor goes full out - but micsmc shows 0 activity on the phi card.
Your help in getting this working would be greatly appreciated.
Using l_python27_bu_2017.0.018 adasys@smarties:~$ which python /home/adasys/intel/intelpython27/bin/python adasys@smarties:~$ env |sort <snip> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/adasys/compilers_and_libraries_2016.3.210/linux/compiler/lib/intel64_lin:/home/adasys/compilers_and_libraries_2016.3.210/linux/mpirt/lib/intel64_lin LIBRARY_PATH=/home/adasys/compilers_and_libraries_2016.3.210/linux/compiler/lib/intel64_lin MIC_ENV_PREFIX=MIC MIC_LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/adasys/compilers_and_libraries_2016.3.210/linux/compiler/lib/intel64_lin_mic MIC_OMP_NUM_THREADS=120 MKL_MIC_ENABLE=1 NLSPATH=/home/adasys/compilers_and_libraries_2016.3.210/linux/compiler/lib/intel64_lin/locale/%l_%t/%N OFFLOAD_REPORT=2 PATH=/usr/src/micperf/micp/micp/scripts:/home/adasys/bin:/home/adasys/compilers_and_libraries_2016.3.210/linux/mpirt/bin/intel64_lin:/usr/src/micperf/micp/micp/scripts:/home/adasys/intel/intelpython27/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games PYTHONPATH=/usr/src/micperf/micp: <snip> adasys@smarties:~$ python /home/python/dask/bench.py 21.0987641811 adasys@smarties:~$ python -m TBB /home/python/dask/bench.py 18.8681139946
Link Copied
- Mark as New
- Bookmark
- Subscribe
- Mute
- Subscribe to RSS Feed
- Permalink
- Report Inappropriate Content
Hi Andrew,
Thank you for the question. TBB does not do any offloading, it manages software threads on the same CPUs where it was enabled.
Auto-offloading is a separate story and is a property of Intel MKL which enables Numpy/Scipy and other dependent Python packages.
Please refer to this blog for what functions are supported w.r.t. automatic offloading in Intel MKL: https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-mkl-automatic-offload-enabled-functions-for-intel-xeon-phi-coprocessors
And please refer here for how to enable automatic offloading: https://software.intel.com/en-us/node/528599
However, for Intel Distribution of Python, you need to install mkl_mic_rt (for Beta releases) or mkl_mic (for the Gold release) from anaconda.org/intel
Regards,
Anton
- Mark as New
- Bookmark
- Subscribe
- Mute
- Subscribe to RSS Feed
- Permalink
- Report Inappropriate Content
Hi Anton,
Thank you for the excellent info. My question is about newer Intel Xeon Phi KNL x200 64-core CPU - not the x100 co-processor. I am using a KNL x200 DAP workstation with Anaconda Intel Python 3_full installed on it. What environment variables do I need to set to enable automatic off-load from Python 3 scripts?
Current environment variables that I am using are :
- ACCEPT_INTEL_PYTHON_EULA=yes
- MKL_MIC_ENABLE=1
- MKL_DYNAMIC=true
Are there any other environment variables that you would recommend setting? Should I set OMP_NUM_THREADS or MIC_OMP_NUM_THREADS values, or can they be discovered automatically?
Thank you!
- Subscribe to RSS Feed
- Mark Topic as New
- Mark Topic as Read
- Float this Topic for Current User
- Bookmark
- Subscribe
- Printer Friendly Page