Host PC crashing after sometime of running oneAPI

[RenzCiego]

Hello everyone,

For some context, I am converting a CNN model using hls4ml and oneAPI as its backend, and my FPGA is De1-SoC.

When building using oneAPI after an hour, my host PC will freeze and kills the process of oneAPI, and gives me this message:

Killed
Error: Optimizer FAILED.
Refer to /tmp/myproject-2cfa12-b4f8a0/logs/myproject_fpga.log for details.

llvm-foreach:
icpx: error: fpga compiler command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)
make[3]: *** [CMakeFiles/fpga.dir/build.make:113: myproject.fpga] Error 1
make[2]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:206: CMakeFiles/fpga.dir/all] Error 2
make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:213: CMakeFiles/fpga.dir/rule] Error 2
make: *** [Makefile:176: fpga] Error 2

When I look into the myproject_fpga.log, I get this message:

Compiler Command: aoc -o /tmp/myproject-2cfa12-b4f8a0.aocx /tmp/icpx-4972caa01e/myproject-043f77-18ce83.spv -sycl -dep-files=/tmp/icpx-4972caa01e/myproject.cpp-a9606a.d,/tmp/icpx-4972>
Killed

I don't get that much information to properly figure out where went wrong within the process. I hope someone could help me with this, since I've been trying a lot of configurations, but still it does not change the outcome.

Overmore, to eliminate the possibility of error in my installation of oneAPI and/or Quartus, I tried running the simple-add that comes with oneAPI, thankfully it works, and I've managed to synthesize it into my FPGA using Quartus.

Thank You!

[Jessica_Intel · Accepted solution]

Hello @RenzCiego,

Based on the log message saying "Killed", and the fact that there are no error messages or a crash shown in the logs, the first thing I would check is whether the system killed the process. For example, if the process is using too much memory: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/726690/what-killed-my-process-and-why

I hope this helps, 

Jessica

[BoonBengT_Altera]

Hi @RenzCiego,

Good day, just following up on the previous clarification.

By any chances did you managed to look into it?

Hope to hear from you soon.

Best Wishes

BB

[BoonBengT_Altera]

Hi @RenzCiego,

Greetings, just checking in to see if there is any further doubts in regards to this matter.

Hope your doubts have been clarified.

Best Wishes

BB

[RenzCiego]

Hi @BoonBengT_Altera and @Jessica_Intel ,

Good Day!

I opted for Intel HLS compiler, and successfully synthesized the neural network into the FPGA. Indeed it was the shortage of my system memory that kills the oneAPI compiler.

Thank you so much for the help!

Best,
Renz Ciego

[BoonBengT_Altera]

Hi @RenzCiego,

Great! Good to know that you managed to overcome this, with no further clarification on this thread, it will be transitioned to community support for further help on doubts in this thread. 

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Best Wishes

BB