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==== Calculation of Pi ====
 
==== Calculation of Pi ====
 
For this assessment, we used code found at [https://helloacm.com/cc-coding-exercise-finding-approximation-of-pi-using-monto-carlo-algorithm/ helloacm.com]
 
For this assessment, we used code found at [https://helloacm.com/cc-coding-exercise-finding-approximation-of-pi-using-monto-carlo-algorithm/ helloacm.com]
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<syntaxhighlight lang="cpp">
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int main() {
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    srand(time(NULL));
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    cout.precision(10);
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    std::chrono::steady_clock::time_point ts, te;
  
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    const double N[] = {1e1,1e3, 1e4, 1e5, 1e6, 1e7, 1e8};
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    for (int j = 0; j < (sizeof(N) / sizeof(N[0])); j ++) {
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ts = std::chrono::steady_clock::now();
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        int circle = 0;
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        for (int i = 0; i < N[j]; i ++) {
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            double x = static_cast<double>(rand()) / static_cast<double>(RAND_MAX);
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            double y = static_cast<double>(rand()) / static_cast<double>(RAND_MAX);
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            if (x * x + y * y <= 1.0) circle ++;
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        }
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te = std::chrono::steady_clock::now();
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        cout << N[j] << (char)9 << (char)9 << (double)circle / N[j] * 4 ;
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    reportTime("", te - ts);
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        }
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    return 0;
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}
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</syntaxhighlight>
 
In this version, the value of PI is calculated using the Monte Carlo method.  
 
In this version, the value of PI is calculated using the Monte Carlo method.  
 
This method states:  
 
This method states:  
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  100000000      3.1419176 - took - 10035 millisecs
 
  100000000      3.1419176 - took - 10035 millisecs
 
   
 
   
  ''The first column represents the "stride" or the number of digits of pi we are calculating to.
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  ''The first column represents the number of points we are generating
  
 
With this method, we can see that the accuracy of the calculation is slightly off. This is due to the randomization of points within the circle. Running the program again will give us slightly different results.
 
With this method, we can see that the accuracy of the calculation is slightly off. This is due to the randomization of points within the circle. Running the program again will give us slightly different results.
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'''Parallelizing
 
'''Parallelizing
  
From one of the suggested improvements in the algorithm post link. A potential improvement is changing from char& c to a const char in the for loop
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We did not see any other way to parallelize the algorithm.
  
<syntaxhighlight lang="cpp">
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=== Assignment 2 ===
  
for (char& c : input) {
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----
  
</syntaxhighlight >
 
 
since char& c is not being modified. Otherwise we did not see any way to parallelize compression.
 
 
=== Assignment 2 ===
 
 
In order to parallelize the code from above, we decided to use a kernel to handle the calculations.
 
In order to parallelize the code from above, we decided to use a kernel to handle the calculations.
The logic remains the same but the results are much faster.
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The logic largely remains the same, but we offload the CPU calculations to the GPU. <br>
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This code generates random points within the kernel and the calculations are also done in here. <br>
 
<br>  
 
<br>  
 
Offloading to the GPU results in a pi calculation time to be reduced
 
Offloading to the GPU results in a pi calculation time to be reduced
 
<br>
 
<br>
[[File:Pi_calculation.png|400px]]
 
 
<br>
 
<br>
 
'''Kernel code used
 
'''Kernel code used
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}
 
}
 
</syntaxhighlight>
 
</syntaxhighlight>
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<br>
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[http://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/curand/index.html cuRAND] documentation.
 
<br>
 
<br>
  
 
'''Results CPU vs GPU
 
'''Results CPU vs GPU
 
<br>
 
<br>
[[File:Cpuvsgpusheet.PNG|400px]]
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[[File:Cpuvsgpusheet.PNG|600px]]
 
<br>
 
<br>
 
<br>
 
<br>
[[File:Cpuvsgpu.png]]
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[[File:Cpuvsgpu.png|600px]]
 
<br>
 
<br>
 
As we can see above, the more iterations, the more accurate the calculation of PI. <br>
 
As we can see above, the more iterations, the more accurate the calculation of PI. <br>
 
The CPU's results drastically change as we increase the iteration 10x. <br>
 
The CPU's results drastically change as we increase the iteration 10x. <br>
 
However, the parallelized results seem to stay accurate throughout the iterations. <br>
 
However, the parallelized results seem to stay accurate throughout the iterations. <br>
As the iteration passes 100 million, we have a bit of memory leaks which results in inaccurate results. <br>
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It seems as though the calculation time doesn't change much and stays consistent. <br>
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[[File:Cudamalloc.PNG|800px]] <br>
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[[File:Prof.PNG]] <br>
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Profiling the code shows that '''cudaMalloc''' takes up most of the time spent. Even when <br>
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there are 10 iterations, the time remains at 300 milliseconds. <br>
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As the iteration passes 25 million, we have a bit of memory leak which results in inaccurate results. <br><br>
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In order to optimize the code, we must find a way reduce the time cudaMalloc takes.<br>
  
 
=== Assignment 3 ===
 
=== Assignment 3 ===
The kernel code we used to optimize our code
 
<syntaxhighlight lang="cpp">
 
  
__global__ void gpu_monte_carlo(float *estimate, curandState *states, float n) {
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----
unsigned int tid = threadIdx.x + blockDim.x * blockIdx.x;
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After realizing the cudaMemcpy and cudaMalloc takes quite a bit of time, we focused our efforts on optimizing it.
float points_in_circle = 0;
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It was difficult to find a solution because the initial copy takes a bit of time to set up.<br>
float x, y;
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We tried using cudaMallocHost to see if we can allocate memory instead of using malloc. <br>
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cudaMallocHost will allocate pinned memory which is stored in RAM and can be accessed by the GPU's DMA directly.
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We changed one part of our code
  
curand_init(1234, tid, 0, &states[tid]);  // Initialize CURAND
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<syntaxhighlight lang="cpp">
  
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cudaMallocHost((void **)&host, size);
  
for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
 
x = curand_uniform(&states[tid]);
 
y = curand_uniform(&states[tid]);
 
points_in_circle += (x*x + y*y <= 1.0f); // count if x & y is in the circle.
 
}
 
estimate[tid] = 4.0f * points_in_circle / n; // return estimate of pi
 
}
 
 
</syntaxhighlight>
 
</syntaxhighlight>
  
'''Test runs:
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<br/>
  
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<br/>
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Here we can see where an error occurs, we suspect that a memory leak causes the problem resulting in an error in pi calculation
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'''Optimized time run results
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<br>
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[[File:Chart3.PNG]]<br>
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[[File:Chartp3.PNG]]<br>
  
How we optimize and improved the code is instead of using a randomized number we ask the user for input on pi calculation.
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The final results show that although cudaMallocHost should imporve the speed of memory transfer, if didn't make much <br>
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of a difference here. In conclusion, we can see that the GPU performance is significantly faster than the CPU's performance.<br>

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Kernal Blas

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  1. Shan Ariel Sioson
  2. Joseph Pham

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Progress

Assignment 1

Calculation of Pi

For this assessment, we used code found at helloacm.com

int main() {
    srand(time(NULL));
    cout.precision(10);
     std::chrono::steady_clock::time_point ts, te;

    const double N[] = {1e1,1e3, 1e4, 1e5, 1e6, 1e7, 1e8};
    for (int j = 0; j < (sizeof(N) / sizeof(N[0])); j ++) {
ts = std::chrono::steady_clock::now();
        int circle = 0;
        for (int i = 0; i < N[j]; i ++) {
            double x = static_cast<double>(rand()) / static_cast<double>(RAND_MAX);
            double y = static_cast<double>(rand()) / static_cast<double>(RAND_MAX);
            if (x * x + y * y <= 1.0) circle ++;
        }
 te = std::chrono::steady_clock::now();
        cout << N[j] << (char)9 << (char)9 << (double)circle / N[j] * 4 ;
    reportTime("", te - ts);
        }
    return 0;
}

In this version, the value of PI is calculated using the Monte Carlo method. This method states:

  1. A circle with radius r in a squre with side length 2r
  2. The area of the circle is πr2 and the area of the square is 4r2
  3. The ratio of the area of the circle to the area of the square is: πr2 / 4r2 = π / 4
  4. If you randomly generate N points inside the square, approximately N * π / 4 of those points (M) should fall inside the circle.
  5. π is then approximated as:
  • N * π / 4 = M
  • π / 4 = M / N
  • π = 4 * M / N

In other words
π ≈ 4 * Ninner / Ntotal

For simplicity the radius of the circle is 1. With this, we randomly generate points within the area and count the number of times each point falls within the circle, between 0 and 1.
We then calculate the ratio and multiply by 4 which will give us the approximation of Π. When we only have a small number of points, the estimation is not very accurate,
but when we have hundreds of thousands of points, we get much closer to the actual value.

Pi 30K.gif

When we run the program we see:

1st Run

1000            3.152 - took - 0 millisecs
10000           3.1328 - took - 0 millisecs
100000          3.14744 - took - 9 millisecs
1000000         3.141028 - took - 96 millisecs
10000000        3.1417368 - took - 998 millisecs
100000000       3.1419176 - took - 10035 millisecs

The first column represents the number of points we are generating

With this method, we can see that the accuracy of the calculation is slightly off. This is due to the randomization of points within the circle. Running the program again will give us slightly different results.

2nd Run

1000            3.12 - took - 0 millisecs
10000           3.1428 - took - 0 millisecs
100000          3.13528 - took - 9 millisecs
1000000         3.143348 - took - 106 millisecs
10000000        3.1414228 - took - 1061 millisecs
100000000       3.14140056 - took - 8281 millisecs

The hotspot within the code lies in the loops. There iteration for the loops is O(n2)

Data Compression

For this suggested project we used the LZW algorithm from one of the suggested projects.

The compress dictionary copies the file into a new file with a .LZW filetype which uses ASCII

The function that compresses the file initializing with ASCII

void compress(string input, int size, string filename) {
	unordered_map<string, int> compress_dictionary(MAX_DEF);
	//Dictionary initializing with ASCII
	for (int unsigned i = 0; i < 256; i++) {
		compress_dictionary[string(1, i)] = i;
	}
	string current_string;
	unsigned int code;
	unsigned int next_code = 256;
	//Output file for compressed data
	ofstream outputFile;
	outputFile.open(filename + ".lzw");

	for (char& c : input) {
		current_string = current_string + c;
		if (compress_dictionary.find(current_string) == compress_dictionary.end()) {
			if (next_code <= MAX_DEF)
				compress_dictionary.insert(make_pair(current_string, next_code++));
			current_string.erase(current_string.size() - 1);
			outputFile << convert_int_to_bin(compress_dictionary[current_string]);
			current_string = c;
		}
	}
	if (current_string.size())
		outputFile << convert_int_to_bin(compress_dictionary[current_string]);
	outputFile.close();
}


The results of the compression from:


Compression test.png


Compression test chart.png


Parallelizing

We did not see any other way to parallelize the algorithm.

Assignment 2


In order to parallelize the code from above, we decided to use a kernel to handle the calculations. The logic largely remains the same, but we offload the CPU calculations to the GPU.
This code generates random points within the kernel and the calculations are also done in here.

Offloading to the GPU results in a pi calculation time to be reduced

Kernel code used

__global__ void calculate(float *d_pi, curandState *states, float n) {
	unsigned int tid = threadIdx.x + blockDim.x * blockIdx.x;
	float points = 0;
	float x, y;

	curand_init(1000, tid, 0, &states[tid]);  // 	Initialize CURAND

	for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
		x = curand_uniform(&states[tid]);  //calls random float from 0.0 to 1.0
		y = curand_uniform(&states[tid]);
		points += (x*x + y*y <= 1.0f); // count if x & y is in the circle.
	}

	d_pi[tid] = 4.0f * points / n; // return estimate of pi
}


cuRAND documentation.

Results CPU vs GPU
Cpuvsgpusheet.PNG

Cpuvsgpu.png
As we can see above, the more iterations, the more accurate the calculation of PI.
The CPU's results drastically change as we increase the iteration 10x.
However, the parallelized results seem to stay accurate throughout the iterations.
It seems as though the calculation time doesn't change much and stays consistent.

Cudamalloc.PNG
Prof.PNG

Profiling the code shows that cudaMalloc takes up most of the time spent. Even when
there are 10 iterations, the time remains at 300 milliseconds.
As the iteration passes 25 million, we have a bit of memory leak which results in inaccurate results.


In order to optimize the code, we must find a way reduce the time cudaMalloc takes.

Assignment 3


After realizing the cudaMemcpy and cudaMalloc takes quite a bit of time, we focused our efforts on optimizing it. It was difficult to find a solution because the initial copy takes a bit of time to set up.
We tried using cudaMallocHost to see if we can allocate memory instead of using malloc.
cudaMallocHost will allocate pinned memory which is stored in RAM and can be accessed by the GPU's DMA directly. We changed one part of our code

cudaMallocHost((void **)&host, size);



Here we can see where an error occurs, we suspect that a memory leak causes the problem resulting in an error in pi calculation

Optimized time run results
Chart3.PNG
Chartp3.PNG

The final results show that although cudaMallocHost should imporve the speed of memory transfer, if didn't make much
of a difference here. In conclusion, we can see that the GPU performance is significantly faster than the CPU's performance.