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lightjohn
Journeyman III

dot product reduction

Hello, newbie here.

I want to do a  dot product like in this tuto: http://developer.amd.com/resources/documentation-articles/articles-whitepapers/opencl-optimization-c...

http://developer.amd.com/resources/documentation-articles/articles-whitepapers/opencl-optimization-c...

My operation is more like that:

float reduce_sum(double* inputA, double* inputB , int length) {

  float accumulator = 0.0;

  for(int i = 0; i < length; i++)

  accumulator += inputA*inputB;

  return accumulator;

}

But the tutorial is far too complex for now, and here my current kernel:

#pragma OPENCL EXTENSION cl_khr_int64_base_atomics: enable

void MyAtomicAdd(__global double *val, double delta) {

    union {double f;ulong  i;} old;

    union {double f;ulong  i;} new;

    do {

      old.f = *val;

      new.f = old.f + delta;

    } while (atom_cmpxchg ( (volatile __global ulong *)val, old.i, new.i) != old.i);

}

__kernel void inner(__global double *out, __global double *x, __global double *p)

{

    int gid = get_global_id(0);

    MyAtomicAdd(out, x[gid]*p[gid]);

}


It's working but it's very very very slow (2second). So I thought I could use:

atom_add((volatile __global ulong *)out, (ulong) (x[gid]*p[gid])) instead of MyAtomicAdd but the output is not good so I think even if ulong and double have the same size it's not enough.Also if someone could tell me how to make an atomic add with double, I would be very grateful because google is not very helping in this case.

Can you help me ?

Thank you for any advice.

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Meteorhead
Challenger

The reason why the case study is so complicated, is because there is no such thing as floating point atomics in OpenCL. CUDA and Nv hardware have such a feature, but even they do not expose it as an OpenCL extension. That is the reason why you have to use a 2 step reduction as explained in the case study. OpenCL 2.0 provides you with work-group level reduction methods, so reducing over built-in operators is extremely simple.

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