Hey everyone,
I'm a physics student @ the University of Delft and because of that I do quite a lot of calculations on my PC. The problem is that my CPU (C2D E8400@3.6ghz) isn't fast enough to make the calculations in an acceptable amount of time. So I was thinking, why use my CPU which can do about 30 GFlops while my 2 4850's (@700,1020) can do about 2.2 TFlops!
I already have some C++ experience (and a lot PHP, but that doesn't really matter) so I decided to check out the wonderful world of ATI Stream.
Well, It's about 2 hours later right now and I'm damn frustrated! I installed Stream v2.0 and set the Env. Var's. The OpenCL samples compile and run but it fails at the function SetupKernel:
CALint SetupKernel(const CALchar* ILKernel, CALmodule* module, CALcontext* ctx, CALboolean disassemble)
{
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//
// compile, link and load the kernel program
//
CALimage image = NULL;
CALboolean success = CAL_FALSE;
// Get device specific information
CALdeviceattribs attribs;
attribs.struct_size = sizeof(CALdeviceattribs);
if (calDeviceGetAttribs(&attribs, Info.DeviceNum) != CAL_RESULT_OK)
{
fprintf(stderr, "There was an error getting device attribs.\n");
fprintf(stderr, "Error string is %s\n", calGetErrorString());
return 0;
}
// Compile IL kernel into object
CALobject obj;
if (calclCompile(&obj, CAL_LANGUAGE_IL, ILKernel, attribs.target) != CAL_RESULT_OK)
{
fprintf(stderr, "There was an error compiling the program.\n");
fprintf(stderr, "Error string is %s\n", calclGetErrorString());
return 0;
}
// Link object into an image
if (calclLink(&image, &obj, 1) != CAL_RESULT_OK)
{
fprintf(stderr, "There was an error linking the program.\n");
fprintf(stderr, "Error string is %s\n", calclGetErrorString());
return 0;
}
if (calclFreeObject(obj) != CAL_RESULT_OK)
{
fprintf(stderr, "There was an error freeing the compiler object.\n");
fprintf(stderr, "Error string: %s\n", calclGetErrorString());
return 0;
}
if (disassemble == CAL_TRUE)
{
calclDisassembleImage(image, __logger);
}
// Load module into the context
if (calModuleLoad(module, *ctx, image) != CAL_RESULT_OK)
{
fprintf(stderr, "There was an error loading the program module.\n");
fprintf(stderr, "Error string is %s\n", calGetErrorString());
return 0;
}
if (calclFreeImage(image) != CAL_RESULT_OK)
{
fprintf(stderr, "There was an error freeing the program image.\n");
fprintf(stderr, "Error string is %s\n", calGetErrorString());
return 0;
}
return 1;
}
Error:
There was an error getting device attribs.
Error string is Parameter passed in is invalid
Has this something to do with 64-bit or crossfire?
Does anyone know how I can fix this problem. I'm eager to start experimenting with my GPU's as my new calculator.
Regards,
Iska
