This repository contains an initial low-level API library for the efficient high-order discretization methods developed by the ECP co-design Center for Efficient Exascale Discretizations (CEED). While our focus is on high-order finite elements, the approach is mostly algebraic and thus applicable to other discretizations in factored form, as explained in the user manual and API implementation portion of the documentation.
One of the challenges with high-order methods is that a global sparse matrix is no longer a good representation of a high-order linear operator, both with respect to the FLOPs needed for its evaluation, as well as the memory transfer needed for a matvec. Thus, high-order methods require a new "format" that still represents a linear (or more generally non-linear) operator, but not through a sparse matrix.
The goal of libCEED is to propose such a format, as well as supporting implementations and data structures, that enable efficient operator evaluation on a variety of computational device types (CPUs, GPUs, etc.). This new operator description is based on algebraically factored form, which is easy to incorporate in a wide variety of applications, without significant refactoring of their own discretization infrastructure.
The repository is part of the CEED software suite, a collection of software benchmarks, miniapps, libraries and APIs for efficient exascale discretizations based on high-order finite element and spectral element methods. See http://github.com/ceed for more information and source code availability.
The CEED research is supported by the Exascale Computing Project (17-SC-20-SC), a collaborative effort of two U.S. Department of Energy organizations (Office of Science and the National Nuclear Security Administration) responsible for the planning and preparation of a capable exascale ecosystem, including software, applications, hardware, advanced system engineering and early testbed platforms, in support of the nation’s exascale computing imperative.
For more details on the CEED API see the user manual.
The CEED library, libceed, is a C99 library with no required dependencies, and
with Fortran and Python interfaces. It can be built using:
make
or, with optimization flags:
make OPT='-O3 -march=skylake-avx512 -ffp-contract=fast'
These optimization flags are used by all languages (C, C++, Fortran) and this makefile variable can also be set for testing and examples (below). Python users can install using:
pip install libceed
or in a clone of the repository via pip install ..
The library attempts to automatically detect support for the AVX instruction set using gcc-style compiler options for the host. Support may need to be manually specified via:
make AVX=1
or:
make AVX=0
if your compiler does not support gcc-style options, if you are cross compiling, etc.
The test suite produces TAP output and is run by:
make test
or, using the prove tool distributed with Perl (recommended):
make prove
There are multiple supported backends, which can be selected at runtime in the examples:
| CEED resource | Backend |
/cpu/self/ref/serial |
Serial reference implementation |
/cpu/self/ref/blocked |
Blocked reference implementation |
/cpu/self/ref/memcheck |
Memcheck backend, undefined value checks |
/cpu/self/opt/serial |
Serial optimized C implementation |
/cpu/self/opt/blocked |
Blocked optimized C implementation |
/cpu/self/avx/serial |
Serial AVX implementation |
/cpu/self/avx/blocked |
Blocked AVX implementation |
/cpu/self/xsmm/serial |
Serial LIBXSMM implementation |
/cpu/self/xsmm/blocked |
Blocked LIBXSMM implementation |
/cpu/occa |
Serial OCCA kernels |
/gpu/occa |
CUDA OCCA kernels |
/omp/occa |
OpenMP OCCA kernels |
/ocl/occa |
OpenCL OCCA kernels |
/gpu/cuda/ref |
Reference pure CUDA kernels |
/gpu/cuda/reg |
Pure CUDA kernels using one thread per element |
/gpu/cuda/shared |
Optimized pure CUDA kernels using shared memory |
/gpu/cuda/gen |
Optimized pure CUDA kernels using code generation |
/gpu/magma |
CUDA MAGMA kernels |
The /cpu/self/*/serial backends process one element at a time and are intended for meshes
with a smaller number of high order elements. The /cpu/self/*/blocked backends process
blocked batches of eight interlaced elements and are intended for meshes with higher numbers
of elements.
The /cpu/self/ref/* backends are written in pure C and provide basic functionality.
The /cpu/self/opt/* backends are written in pure C and use partial e-vectors to improve performance.
The /cpu/self/avx/* backends rely upon AVX instructions to provide vectorized CPU performance.
The /cpu/self/xsmm/* backends rely upon the LIBXSMM package
to provide vectorized CPU performance. If linking MKL and LIBXSMM is desired but
the Makefile is not detecting MKLROOT, linking libCEED against MKL can be
forced by setting the environment variable MKL=1.
The /cpu/self/memcheck/* backends rely upon the Valgrind Memcheck tool
to help verify that user QFunctions have no undefined values. To use, run your code with
Valgrind and the Memcheck backends, e.g. valgrind ./build/ex1 -ceed /cpu/self/ref/memcheck. A
'development' or 'debugging' version of Valgrind with headers is required to use this backend.
This backend can be run in serial or blocked mode and defaults to running in the serial mode
if /cpu/self/memcheck is selected at runtime.
The /*/occa backends rely upon the OCCA package to provide
cross platform performance.
The /gpu/cuda/* backends provide GPU performance strictly using CUDA.
The /gpu/magma backend relies upon the MAGMA package.
libCEED comes with several examples of its usage, ranging from standalone C
codes in the /examples/ceed directory to examples based on external packages,
such as MFEM, PETSc, and Nek5000. Nek5000 v18.0 or greater is required.
To build the examples, set the MFEM_DIR, PETSC_DIR, and
NEK5K_DIR variables and run:
cd examples/
# libCEED examples on CPU and GPU
cd ceed/
make
./ex1-volume -ceed /cpu/self
./ex1-volume -ceed /gpu/occa
./ex2-surface -ceed /cpu/self
./ex2-surface -ceed /gpu/occa
cd ..
# MFEM+libCEED examples on CPU and GPU
cd mfem/
make
./bp1 -ceed /cpu/self -no-vis
./bp3 -ceed /gpu/occa -no-vis
cd ..
# Nek5000+libCEED examples on CPU and GPU
cd nek/
make
./nek-examples.sh -e bp1 -ceed /cpu/self -b 3
./nek-examples.sh -e bp3 -ceed /gpu/occa -b 3
cd ..
# PETSc+libCEED examples on CPU and GPU
cd petsc/
make
./bps -problem bp1 -ceed /cpu/self
./bps -problem bp2 -ceed /gpu/occa
./bps -problem bp3 -ceed /cpu/self
./bps -problem bp4 -ceed /gpu/occa
./bps -problem bp5 -ceed /cpu/self
./bps -problem bp6 -ceed /gpu/occa
cd ..
cd petsc/
make
./bpsraw -problem bp1 -ceed /cpu/self
./bpsraw -problem bp2 -ceed /gpu/occa
./bpsraw -problem bp3 -ceed /cpu/self
./bpsraw -problem bp4 -ceed /gpu/occa
./bpsraw -problem bp5 -ceed /cpu/self
./bpsraw -problem bp6 -ceed /gpu/occa
cd ..
cd petsc/
make
./bpssphere -problem bp1 -ceed /cpu/self
./bpssphere -problem bp2 -ceed /gpu/occa
./bpssphere -problem bp3 -ceed /cpu/self
./bpssphere -problem bp4 -ceed /gpu/occa
./bpssphere -problem bp5 -ceed /cpu/self
./bpssphere -problem bp6 -ceed /gpu/occa
cd ..
cd petsc/
make
./area -problem cube -ceed /cpu/self -petscspace_degree 3
./area -problem cube -ceed /gpu/occa -petscspace_degree 3
./area -problem sphere -ceed /cpu/self -petscspace_degree 3 -dm_refine 2
./area -problem sphere -ceed /gpu/occa -petscspace_degree 3 -dm_refine 2
cd fluids/
make
./navierstokes -ceed /cpu/self -petscspace_degree 1
./navierstokes -ceed /gpu/occa -petscspace_degree 1
cd ..
cd solids/
make
./elasticity -ceed /cpu/self -mesh [.exo file] -degree 2 -E 1 -nu 0.3 -problem linElas -forcing mms
./elasticity -ceed /gpu/occa -mesh [.exo file] -degree 2 -E 1 -nu 0.3 -problem linElas -forcing mms
cd ..For the last example shown, sample meshes to be used in place of
[.exo file] can be found at https://github.com/jeremylt/ceedSampleMeshes
The above code assumes a GPU-capable machine with the OCCA backend
enabled. Depending on the available backends, other CEED resource
specifiers can be provided with the -ceed option. Other command line
arguments can be found in the petsc folder.
A sequence of benchmarks for all enabled backends can be run using:
make benchmarks
The results from the benchmarks are stored inside the benchmarks/ directory
and they can be viewed using the commands (requires python with matplotlib):
cd benchmarks python postprocess-plot.py petsc-bps-bp1-*-output.txt python postprocess-plot.py petsc-bps-bp3-*-output.txt
Using the benchmarks target runs a comprehensive set of benchmarks which may
take some time to run. Subsets of the benchmarks can be run using the scripts in the benchmarks folder.
For more details about the benchmarks, see the benchmarks/README.md file.
To install libCEED, run:
make install prefix=/usr/local
or (e.g., if creating packages):
make install prefix=/usr DESTDIR=/packaging/path
Note that along with the library, libCEED installs kernel sources, e.g. OCCA
kernels are installed in $prefix/lib/okl. This allows the OCCA backend to
build specialized kernels at run-time. In a normal setting, the kernel sources
will be found automatically (relative to the library file libceed.so).
However, if that fails (e.g. if libceed.so is moved), one can copy (cache) the
kernel sources inside the user OCCA directory, ~/.occa using:
$(OCCA_DIR)/bin/occa cache ceed $(CEED_DIR)/lib/okl/*.okl
This will allow OCCA to find the sources regardless of the location of the CEED
library. One may occasionally need to clear the OCCA cache, which can be accomplished
by removing the ~/.occa directory or by calling $(OCCA_DIR)/bin/occa clear -a.
To install libCEED for Python, run:
pip install libceed
with the desired setuptools options, such as --user.
In addition to library and header, libCEED provides a pkg-config
file that can be used to easily compile and link.
For example, if
$prefix is a standard location or you set the environment variable
PKG_CONFIG_PATH:
cc `pkg-config --cflags --libs ceed` -o myapp myapp.c
will build myapp with libCEED. This can be used with the source or
installed directories. Most build systems have support for pkg-config.
You can reach the libCEED team by emailing [email protected] or by leaving a comment in the issue tracker.
If you utilize libCEED please cite:
@misc{libceed-dev-site,
title = {lib{CEED} development site},
url = {https://github.com/ceed/libceed},
howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/ceed/libceed}},
year = 2020
}
The BiBTeX file for this reference can be found in the doc/bib/references.bib file.
The following copyright applies to each file in the CEED software suite, unless otherwise stated in the file:
Copyright (c) 2017, Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC. Produced at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. LLNL-CODE-734707. All Rights reserved.
See files LICENSE and NOTICE for details.