title: GCN3 HACC Test tags: - x86 - amdgpu layout: default permalink: resources/hacc shortdoc: > Resources to build a disk image with the GCN3 HACC (halo-finder) workload.

Resource: halo-finder (HACC)

HACC is a DoE application designed to simulate the evolution of the universe by simulating the formation of structure in collisionless fluids under the influence of gravity. The halo-finder code can be GPU accelerated by using the code in RCBForceTree.cxx

src/gpu/halo-finder/src contains the code required to build and run ForceTreeTest from src/halo_finder in the main HACC codebase. src/gpu/halo-finder/src/dfft contains the dfft code from src/dfft in the main HACC codebase.

HACC can be used to test the GCN3-GPU model.

Compiling HACC, compiling the GCN3_X86 gem5, and running HACC on gem5 is dependent on the gcn-gpu docker image, built from the util/dockerfiles/gcn-gpu/Dockerfile on the gem5 stable branch.

Compilation and Running

halo-finder requires that certain libraries that aren't installed by default in the GCN3 docker container provided by gem5, and that the environment is configured properly in order to build. We provide a Dockerfile that installs those libraries and sets the environment.

In order to test the GPU code in halo-finder, we compile and run ForceTreeTest.

To build the Docker image and the benchmark:

cd src/gpu/halo-finder
docker build -t <image_name> .
docker run --rm -v ${PWD}:${PWD} -w ${PWD}/src -u $UID:$GID <image_name> make hip/ForceTreeTest

The binary is built for gfx801 by default and is placed at src/gpu/halo-finder/src/hip/ForceTreeTest

ForceTreeTest is a GPU application, which requires that gem5 is built with the GCN3_X86 architecture. To build GCN3_X86:

# Working directory is your gem5 directory
docker run --rm -v ${PWD}:${PWD} -w ${PWD} -u $UID:$GID <image_name> scons -sQ -j$(nproc) build/GCN3_X86/gem5.opt

To run ForceTreeTest:

# Assuming gem5 and gem5-resources are in the working directory
docker run --rm -v $PWD:$PWD -w $PWD -u $UID:$GID <image_name> gem5/build/GCN3_X86/gem5.opt gem5/configs/example/apu_se.py -n3 --benchmark-root=gem5-resources/src/gpu/halo-finder/src/hip -cForceTreeTest --options="0.5 0.1 64 0.1 1 N 12 rcb"

Pre-built binary

http://dist.gem5.org/dist/v21-0/test-progs/halo-finder/ForceTreeTest