Streams and Multi-GPU using CUVI

Using Streams with CUVI

CUVI framework provides a way to use streams with minimal coding effort. Each function call in CUVI takes an optional parameter to specify the stream on which it should run. The code below shows how a simple function call of CUVI can be divided into streaming calls on GPU. For most of the cases this will result in better performance as copying image data to GPU and processing that data on GPU happens simultaneously.

CUVI example

In this example we use CUVI's RGB2Gray function from Color Operations module on a full HD input image

//You may notice that all the functions below take an optional parameter for stream //If the users doesn't wish to use it the program will execute on a single stream by default //Creating a 3-channel Image container on GPU CuviImage* gimg = new CuviImage(size,img->depth,3); //Creating a sing channel Image container for output on GPU CuviImage* gout = new CuviImage(size,img->depth,1); //Uploading RGB image to GPU gimg->upload(host_img->imageData, host_img->widthStep); //function call cuvi::colorOperations::RGB2Gray(gimg,gout); //Download resultant gray image back to host gout->download(host_out->imageData, host_out->widthStep);

Same example with Streams

Streams greatly improve performance of your application by hiding data processing time in data copying time. Instead of waiting for the complete image to be copied on GPU before processing, streaming enables processing the data as it arrives on GPU. Here's how you can use streaming in your application using CUVI:

//Number of data chunks int streamCount = 4; //Size of each image chunk CuviSize size = cuviSize(host_img->width, host_img->height/streamCount); //Creating 3-channel Image containers on GPU for each chunk CuviImage ** gimg = new CuviImage*[streamCount]; for(int i=0; i<streamCount; i++) gimg[i] = new CuviImage(size,img->depth,3); //Creating single channel Image containers for output on GPU for each chunk CuviImage ** gout = new CuviImage*[streamCount]; for(int i=0; i<streamCount; i++) gout[i] = new CuviImage(size,out->depth,1); //Creating a stream against each chunk of data CuviStream **streams = new CuviStream*[streamCount]; for(int i=0; i<streamCount; i++) cuviCreateStream(&streams[i]); //Uploading image data to GPU in streams for(int i=0; i<streamCount; i++) gimg[i]->upload(host_img->imageData + i*(size.height*host_img->widthStep), host_img->widthStep, streams[i]); //Function call on each stream for(int i=0; i<streamCount; i++){ cuvi::colorOperations::RGB2Gray(gimg[i],gout[i],streams[i]); //Downloading resultant data back to host image in streams for(int i=0; i<streamCount; i++) gout[i]->download(host_out->imageData + i*(size.height * host_out->widthStep), host_out->widthStep, streams[i]); //Don't forget to destroy streams and free memory