Re: [HTCondor-users] [condor-igwn] AMD GPUs & HTCondor

[Todd L Miller <tlmiller@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> LIGO is starting to think about AMD GPUs and I thought to check: is all 
> the condor GPU tooling for discovery and characterisation AMD-friendly?

	Mostly -- via OpenCL -- but IIRC, we don't have any AMD GPUs that 
are new enough for ROCm (spelling?), which is their newer interface.

> A lot of the requirements attributes are pretty CUDA-specific and a 
> cursory google search says you can run CUDA code on AMDs now, so i'm not 
> aware of anything specific that would be problematic and i'm certainly 
> no expert, but I can't remember hearing about anyone running condor jobs 
> on AMD GPUs.

	I hadn't heard anything about running CUDA code on AMDs, so that's 
interesting.  I don't know if that means that newer AMD hardware picks a 
sane-ish "CUDA capability" value, or if -- more likely -- they didn't 
think too hard about match-making...

-- ToddM