Documented CUDA reproducibility, added warning (#1346)

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Johannes Gäßler 2023-05-08 02:42:01 +02:00 committed by GitHub
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@ -257,6 +257,8 @@ Building the program with BLAS support may lead to some performance improvements
cmake --build . --config Release
```
Note: Because llama.cpp uses multiple CUDA streams for matrix multiplication results [are not guaranteed to be reproducible](https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/cublas/index.html#results-reproducibility). If you need reproducibility, set `GGML_CUDA_MAX_STREAMS` in the file `ggml-cuda.cu` to 1.
### Prepare Data & Run
```bash

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@ -100,6 +100,9 @@ bool gpt_params_parse(int argc, char ** argv, gpt_params & params) {
arg = argv[i];
if (arg == "-s" || arg == "--seed") {
#if defined(GGML_USE_CUBLAS)
fprintf(stderr, "WARNING: when using cuBLAS generation results are NOT guaranteed to be reproducible.\n");
#endif
if (++i >= argc) {
invalid_param = true;
break;

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@ -348,7 +348,7 @@ static void ggml_cuda_pool_free(void * ptr, size_t size) {
CUDA_CHECK(cudaFree(ptr));
}
#define GGML_CUDA_MAX_STREAMS 8
#define GGML_CUDA_MAX_STREAMS 8 // Set this to 1 for reproducible matrix multiplication.
#define GGML_CUDA_MAX_EVENTS 64
static cublasHandle_t g_cublasH = nullptr;
static cudaStream_t g_cudaStreams[GGML_CUDA_MAX_STREAMS] = { nullptr };