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zingale committed Jul 23, 2024
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USE_HIP = TRUE


Printing Warnings from GPU Kernels
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.. index:: USE_GPU_PRINTF

Castro will output warnings if several assumptions are violated (often
triggering a retry in the process). On GPUs, printing from a kernel
(using ``printf()``) can increase the number of registers a kernel needs,
causing performance problems. As a result, warnings are disabled by
wrapping them in ``#ifndef AMREX_USE_GPU``.

However, for debugging GPU runs, sometimes we want to see these
warnings. The build option ``USE_GPU_PRINTF=TRUE`` will enable these
(by setting the preprocessor flag ``ALLOW_GPU_PRINTF``).

.. note::

Not every warning has been enabled for GPUs.

.. tip::

On AMD architectures, it seems necessary to use unbuffered I/O. This
can be accomplished in the job submission script (for SLURM) by doing

::

srun -u ./Castro...




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