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Add cudss_nd_nlevels and cudss_hybrid_execute_mode barrier settings - #2229
Expose cuDSS CUDSS_CONFIG_ND_NLEVELS and CUDSS_CONFIG_HYBRID_EXECUTE_MODE (both available in cuDSS 0.7.1) as solver settings. Both default to -1, which leaves the cuDSS default unchanged. ND levels below 2 are rejected by cuDSS, so they are ignored with a log message.
Expose cuDSS CUDSS_CONFIG_ND_NLEVELS and CUDSS_CONFIG_HYBRID_EXECUTE_MODE
(both available in cuDSS 0.7.1) as solver settings. Both default to -1,
which leaves the cuDSS default unchanged. ND levels below 2 are rejected
by cuDSS, so they are ignored with a log message.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: yuwenchen95 <yuwchen@nvidia.com>
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The change adds cuDSS nested-dissection and hybrid-execution settings to solver configuration. PDLP forwards the settings to the barrier solver, which applies supported values. The solver rejects hybrid execute mode 1 when cuDSS determinism is enabled.
Adds parameter names and settings for nested-dissection levels and hybrid execute mode. Both settings default to -1 and are registered as integer parameters.
Forward and apply cuDSS settings cpp/src/pdlp/solve.cu, cpp/src/barrier/sparse_cholesky.cuh, cpp/tests/dual_simplex/unit_tests/solve_barrier.cu
PDLP forwards both settings to the barrier solver. The cuDSS constructor applies supported values. A validation error is raised when deterministic mode is combined with hybrid execute mode 1; a test checks this case.
NVIDIA/cuopt#2113 — The issue reports nondeterministic Barrier results with cudss_deterministic=1. This change adds a related configuration validation, but does not establish that it fixes the reported results.
Suggested reviewers:chris-maes, aliceb-nv
Merge Risk: Moderate · previous review b731c
The new cuDSS settings can be ignored when a solve reuses cached state after settings change. Direct C++ callers can also still trigger a process exit through unsupported mode values. Resolve these, and add the missing documentation for the new settings, before merging unless the risk is explicitly accepted.
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Add cudss_nd_nlevels and cudss_hybrid_execute_mode to docs/cuopt/source/convex-settings.rst. Document their -1 defaults, accepted values, and that values below 2 for cudss_nd_nlevels are ignored by the integration.
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- Line 359: In the constructor’s cuDSS configuration flow, validate the
combination of `cudss_deterministic` enabled and `cudss_hybrid_execute_mode`
equal to 1 before either `cudssConfigSet` call. Return a solver validation error
for this unsupported combination instead of passing it to cuDSS and relying on
`CUDSS_CALL_AND_CHECK_EXIT`.
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In cuDSS 0.7.1, is the combination of deterministic mode and hybrid execute mode rejected by cudssConfigSet or by cudssExecute?
Result:
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<source kind="search">
<title>cuDSS Data Types — NVIDIA cuDSS</title>
<location>https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/cudss/types.html</location>
<excerpt>citeturn0search1 [wordlim: 200] Crawled: 6 days ago; A flag to enable or disable usage of `cudaHostRegister()` by cuDSS hybrid host/device memory mode. ... * hybrid memory or hybrid execute mode with `CUDSS_CONFIG_UBATCH_SIZE` greater than 1;
Associated parameter type: `double`
Default value: `1.0`.
enumerator CUDSS_CONFIG_PIVOT_EPSILON#
Pivoting epsilon.
By default, this is the absolute value to test and replace small diagonal elements encountered during numerical factorization.
In case `CUDSS_CONFIG_PIVOT_EPSILON_ALG` is set to `CUDSS_PIVOT_EPSILON_ALG_SCALED`, this value will be additionally scaled (see more details in the description of `CUDSS_CONFIG_PIVOT_EPSILON_ALG`).
Associated parameter type: `double`
Default value: `1e-5` for single precision and `1e-13` for double precision.
enumerator CUDSS_CONFIG_MAX_LU_NNZ#
Upper limit on the number of nonzero entries in LU factors. This is only relevant for non-symmetric matrices and reordering algorithm set to `CUDSS_REORDERING_ALG_BTF_COLAMD` or `CUDSS_REORDERING_ALG_COLAMD`. If the number of non-zero entries in L and U exceeds the set limit, a runtime error occurs. See also the note for `CUDSS_REORDERING_ALG_BTF_COLAMD` in the table entry for `CUDSS_CONFIG_REORDERING_ALG`.
Associated parameter type: `int64_t`
Default value: `-1` (then the parameter value is ignored and cuDSS uses an estimate of `100 nnz` where `nnz` is the number of non-zero entries in the input matrix).
enumerator CUDSS_CONFIG_HYBRID_MEMORY_MODE#
Memory mode: `0` (default = device-only) or `1` (hybrid = host/device).
Note: Hybrid host/device memory mode should be enabled before the analysis phase (`cudssExecute()` with `CUDSS_PHASE_ANALYSIS`). If the decision to use the hybrid mode is done after the analysis phase, the hybrid memory mode should be enabled and analysis phase must be re-done (which is sub-optimal).
Note: Unlike the hybrid host/device execution mode (see `CUDSS_CONFIG_HYBRID_EXECUTE_MODE`) which controls where compute kernels are executed, the hybrid memory mode only allows cuDSS to keep a part of the factor values (internal data) on the host and always uses the GPU for factorization and solve.
Associated parameter type: `int`
Default value: `-1` (use number of threads returned by `cudssGetMaxThreads()`)
enumerator CUDSS_CONFIG_HYBRID_EXECUTE_MODE#
Execute mode: `0` (default = device-only) or `1` (hybrid = host/device). Hybrid execute mode allows cuDSS to perform calculations on both GPU and CPU. Currently it is used to speed up execution parts with low parallelization capacity.
Note: Reordering part of the analysis step is performed on CPU regardless of execute mode value.
Note: Hybrid execute mode should be enabled before the analysis phase (`cudssExecute()` with `CUDSS_PHASE_ANALYSIS`).
Note: Unlike the hybrid execution mode which controls where compute kernels are executed (and allows greater flexibility in placement of the input data), the hybrid host/device memory mode `CUDSS_CONFIG_HYBRID_MEMORY_MODE` only allows cuDSS to keep part of the factor values (internal data) on the host while only the GPU is used for factorization and solve.
Note: The input matrix can be passed with host memory pointers regardless of this setting. It is also not supported for uniform and non-uniform batches, or when matching is enabled.
enumerator CUDSS_CONFIG_DETERMINISTIC_MODE#
Enable deterministic mode. In deterministic mode, cuDSS is guaranteed to provide the bit-wise identical result at every run when executed on GPUs with the same architecture and the same number of SMs (assuming the input data and solver settings are also bit-wise identical).
Note: in deterministic mode cuDSS uses a different set of kernels which often might be slower than the kernels used in the default mode.
Associated parameter type: `int`
Default value: `0` (disabled).
Currently the feature is supported only for single-gpu, single rhs, and with both hybrid host/device memory mode (`CUDSS_CONFIG_HYBRID_MEMORY_MODE`) and hybrid host/device execute mode (`CUDSS_CONFIG_HYBRID_EXECUTE_MODE`) disabled. Uniform batches are not supported either: `CUDSS_CONFIG_UBATCH_SIZE` greater than 1 together with deterministic mode returns `CUDSS_STATUS_NOT_SUPPORTED`. If $|{a}_{jj}|\sigma \ge \alpha {\lambda }^{2}$, cuDSS again uses a 1x1 pivot at $j$; else if $|{a}_{rr}|\ge \alpha \sigma $, it interchanges $r$ with $j$ and uses a 1x1 pivot. In the remaining case, it interchanges $r$ next to $j$ and forms a 2x2 pivot block.
The number of perturbed 1x1 pivots can be queried after factorization via `CUDSS_DATA_NPIVOTS`.
The following combinations are currently rejected with `CUDSS_STATUS_NOT_SUPPORTED`:
* matrix types other than `CUDSS_MTYPE_SYMMETRIC` and `CUDSS_MTYPE_HERMITIAN`;
* reordering algorithms other than `CUDSS_REORDERING_ALG_NESTED_DISSECTION`, `CUDSS_REORDERING_ALG_AMD` (MetisND and AMD), or `CUDSS_REORDERING_ALG_NONE`;
* non-uniform batches;
* hybrid memory or hybrid execute mode with `CUDSS_CONFIG_UBATCH_SIZE` greater than 1;
* deterministic mode when superpanels are formed;
* fp64 emulation (`CUDSS_CONFIG_EMULATION_MANTISSA_BIT_COUNT` > 0) when superpanels are formed.
Hybrid execute mode disables superpanel creation, so a request that combines hybrid execute mode and `CUDSS_CONFIG_USE_SUPERPANELS` is not rejected by the superpanel restriction unless `CUDSS_CONFIG_UBATCH_SIZE` is greater than 1. Bunch-Kaufman supports all placements supported by hybrid execute mode.
When matching is enabled, Bunch-Kaufman additionally requires symmetry-preserving matching, `CUDSS_REORDERING_ALG_NESTED_DISSECTION`, a single process, and no user permutation or user nested-dissection partition tree. A single process may use multiple GPUs.
</excerpt>
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<source kind="search">
<title>cuDSS Data Types — NVIDIA cuDSS</title>
<location>https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/cudss/types.html</location>
<excerpt>citeturn1search0 [wordlim: 200] Crawled: 6 days ago; Uniform batches are not supported either: `CUDSS_CONFIG_UBATCH_SIZE` greater than 1 together with deterministic mode returns `CUDSS_STATUS_NOT_SUPPORTED`. ... With a Schur complement, a device output buffer must additionally belong to that current CUDA device; otherwise `CUDSS_STATUS_NOT_SUPPORTED` is returned.
enumerator CUDSS_STATUS_NOT_SUPPORTED#
An unsupported (but otherwise reasonable) parameter was passed to the function
enumerator CUDSS_STATUS_EXECUTION_FAILED#
The GPU program failed to execute, or a non-allocation CUDA error was pending at a public API boundary.
enumerator CUDSS_STATUS_INTERNAL_ERROR#
An internal cuDSS operation failed, including an unexpected C++ exception.
enumerator CUDSS_STATUS_IR_FAILED#
Iterative refinement failed to meet the requested convergence tolerance. In this case, the iterations were performed and the refined solution is still accessible.
### `cudssConfigParam_t`#
enum cudssConfigParam_t#
> The enumerator specifies possible names of solver configuration settings. For each setting there is a matching type to be used in `cudssConfigSet()` or `cudssConfigGet()`.
enumerator CUDSS_CONFIG_REORDERING_ALG#
Algorithm for the reordering phase. Supported options are:
* `CUDSS_REORDERING_ALG_DEFAULT` - let the library choose (typically nested dissection).
Associated parameter type: `int`
Default value: `-1` (use number of threads returned by `cudssGetMaxThreads()`)
enumerator CUDSS_CONFIG_HYBRID_EXECUTE_MODE#
Execute mode: `0` (default = device-only) or `1` (hybrid = host/device). Hybrid execute mode allows cuDSS to perform calculations on both GPU and CPU. Currently it is used to speed up execution parts with low parallelization capacity.
Note: Reordering part of the analysis step is performed on CPU regardless of execute mode value.
Note: Hybrid execute mode should be enabled before the analysis phase (`cudssExecute()` with `CUDSS_PHASE_ANALYSIS`).
Note: Unlike the hybrid execution mode which controls where compute kernels are executed (and allows greater flexibility in placement of the input data), the hybrid host/device memory mode `CUDSS_CONFIG_HYBRID_MEMORY_MODE` only allows cuDSS to keep part of the factor values (internal data) on the host while only the GPU is used for factorization and solve.
Note: The input matrix can be passed with host memory pointers regardless of this setting. If hybrid execute mode is enabled, right hand side and solution can be host memory pointers as well (single-process runs with `nrhs` = 1 only).
For more details, see the Hybrid host/device execute mode feature.
Associated parameter type: `int`
Note: For `nrhs > 1`, the analysis phase must be run with `nrhs > 1`, i.e. the right-hand side passed to `cudssExecute()` with `CUDSS_PHASE_ANALYSIS` must have `nrhs > 1`; otherwise a later solve with `nrhs > 1` can return `CUDSS_STATUS_NOT_SUPPORTED`. The host/device placement of the factorization and solve kernels is decided during analysis and takes `nrhs` from that right-hand side. The `nrhs` of subsequent solves does not need to match.
Note: It is strongly recommended to enable the threading layer (`cudssSetThreadingLayer()`) when hybrid execute mode is active, as all analysis step computations are enhanced by multi-threading. Expect significant performance improvements, especially for small and medium-sized matrices.
Default value: `0` (disabled). Currently not supported when `CUDSS_CONFIG_HYBRID_MEMORY_MODE` is used. Also not supported when `CUDSS_CONFIG_DETERMINISTIC_MODE` is enabled, or, when `batchCount` is greater than 1, or when right-hand side and/or solution have a non-trivial leading dimension.
It is also not supported for uniform and non-uniform batches, or when matching is enabled.
enumerator CUDSS_CONFIG_DETERMINISTIC_MODE#
Enable deterministic mode. In deterministic mode, cuDSS is guaranteed to provide the bit-wise identical result at every run when executed on GPUs with the same architecture and the same number of SMs (assuming the input data and solver settings are also bit-wise identical).
Note: in deterministic mode cuDSS uses a different set of kernels which often might be slower than the kernels used in the default mode.
Associated parameter type: `int`
Default value: `0` (disabled).
Currently the feature is supported only for single-gpu, single rhs, and with both hybrid host/device memory mode (`CUDSS_CONFIG_HYBRID_MEMORY_MODE`) and hybrid host/device execute mode (`CUDSS_CONFIG_HYBRID_EXECUTE_MODE`) disabled. Uniform batches are not supported either: `CUDSS_CONFIG_UBATCH_SIZE` greater than 1 together with deterministic mode returns `CUDSS_STATUS_NOT_SUPPORTED`. Also, this feature does not support iterative refinement (`CUDSS_CONFIG_IR_N_STEPS` greater than 0) or the reordering algorithms `CUDSS_REORDERING_ALG_BTF_COLAMD` and `CUDSS_REORDERING_ALG_COLAMD`. The deterministic-mode setting used during analysis is part of the analyzed state. After analysis completes, changing this setting requires running analysis again; otherwise factorization, refactorization, or solve returns `CUDSS_STATUS_INVALID_VALUE`. Bunch-Kaufman pivoting does not support deterministic mode when superpanels are formed.
enumerator CUDSS_CONFIG_DOWNCAST_FACTORS#
Controls whether cuDSS stores the double-precision factors in single (reduced) precision after factorization, releasing the full-precision factors. When disabled (the default) the factors are kept in full precision.
Supported values:
* `CUDSS_DOWNCAST_FACTORS_MODE_DISABLED` (default): disabled.
* `CUDSS_DOWNCAST_FACTORS_MODE_KEEP_BLOCK_DIAGONAL`: store downcast factors and release the full-precision factors, retaining the full-precision diagonal block of every supernode.
* When `CUDSS_CONFIG_DETERMINISTIC_MODE` is enabled.
* When `CUDSS_CONFIG_SCHUR_MODE` is enabled.
* For transpose or conjugate-transpose solves when the right-hand side and solution use the downcast factor precision.
These unsupported configurations return `CUDSS_STATUS_NOT_SUPPORTED`.
enumerator CUDSS_CONFIG_MEMORY_OPTIMIZATION_SETTING#
Selects which memory optimizations cuDSS may apply. Each optimization trades some capability, or some other resource, for a lower memory footprint; none of them is applied unless it is requested here.
The value is a bitwise OR of the flags in `cudssMemoryOptimizationFlags_t`, which describes what each flag does and what it costs. The flags are independent and may be combined in any way; `CUDSS_MEMORY_OPTIMIZATION_DEFAULT` (zero) requests none of them. Setting a value with any bit that does not correspond to a defined flag returns `CUDSS_STATUS_INVALID_VALUE` and leaves the configuration unchanged.
The values reported by `CUDSS_DATA_MEMORY_ESTIMATES` are not affected by this setting: they describe the requirement before any optimization releases memory.
The setting takes effect for the factorization or refactorization phase during which it is set; setting it afterwards has no effect on a factorization that has already run.
Associated parameter type: `cudssMemoryOptimizationFlags_t`
Default value: `CUDSS_MEMORY_OPTIMIZATION_DEFAULT`.
If $|{a}_{jj}|\sigma \ge \alpha {\lambda }^{2}$, cuDSS again uses a 1x1 pivot at $j$; else if $|{a}_{rr}|\ge \alpha \sigma $, it interchanges $r$ with $j$ and uses a 1x1 pivot. In the remaining case, it interchanges $r$ next to $j$ and forms a 2x2 pivot block.
The number of perturbed 1x1 pivots can be queried after factorization via `CUDSS_DATA_NPIVOTS`.
The following combinations are currently rejected with `CUDSS_STATUS_NOT_SUPPORTED`:
* matrix types other than `CUDSS_MTYPE_SYMMETRIC` and `CUDSS_MTYPE_HERMITIAN`;
* reordering algorithms other than `CUDSS_REORDERING_ALG_NESTED_DISSECTION`, `CUDSS_REORDERING_ALG_AMD` (MetisND and AMD), or `CUDSS_REORDERING_ALG_NONE`;
* non-uniform batches;
* hybrid memory or hybrid execute mode with `CUDSS_CONFIG_UBATCH_SIZE` greater than 1;
* deterministic mode when superpanels are formed;
* fp64 emulation (`CUDSS_CONFIG_EMULATION_MANTISSA_BIT_COUNT` > 0) when superpanels are formed.
Hybrid execute mode disables superpanel creation, so a request that combines hybrid execute mode and `CUDSS_CONFIG_USE_SUPERPANELS` is not rejected by the superpanel restriction unless `CUDSS_CONFIG_UBATCH_SIZE` is greater than 1. Bunch-Kaufman supports all placements supported by hybrid execute mode.
When matching is enabled, Bunch-Kaufman additionally requires symmetry-preserving matching, `CUDSS_REORDERING_ALG_NESTED_DISSECTION`, a single process, and no user permutation or user nested-dissection partition tree. A single process may use multiple GPUs.
</excerpt>
</source>
<source kind="search">
<title>cuDSS Advanced Features — NVIDIA cuDSS</title>
<location>https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/cudss/0.7.1/advanced_features.html</location>
<excerpt>citeturn0search0 [wordlim: 200] Crawled: last week; * Currently, hybrid memory mode adds extra synchronization of the CUDA stream, in all phases. ... * Currently, hybrid memory mode is not supported when `CUDSS_ALG_1` or `CUDSS_ALG_2` is used for reordering, or, when `CUDSS_ALG_1` is used for the factorization.
# cuDSS Advanced Features#
## Hybrid host/device memory mode#
The main idea of the hybrid host/device memory mode is to overcome the limitation of the default (non-hybrid) mode that L and U factors (which comprise the largest part of the total device memory consumed by cuDSS) must fit into the device memory. To this purpose, the hybrid memory mode allows keeping only a (smaller) portion of L and U in the device memory at any given time moment, while keeping the entire factors only in the host memory.
While the hybrid memory mode comes with an additional cost of extra host-to-device and device-to-host memory transfers (and thus will be slower than the default mode, if the factors fit into the device memory), it can help solve larger systems which can not be processed in the default mode.
Users can enable or disable the hybrid memory mode via calling `cudssConfigSet()` with the setting `CUDSS_CONFIG_HYBRID_MODE`. Since using the hybrid mode implies changes to be done during the analysis phase, enabling the hybrid mode must be done before the call to `cudssExecute()` with `CUDSS_PHASE_ANALYSIS`.
Once the hybrid mode is enabled, there are several ways of using it:
* First way is to rely on the internal heuristic of cuDSS which can determine how much device memory the hybrid mode can consume. In this case cuDSS will assume that it can use the entire GPU memory and set the device memory limit based on the device properties (which might not be the accurate estimate as driver or other applications can reserve space on the GPU).
* Second way allows the users to have more control over the device memory consumption. The users can set the device memory limit by calling `cudssConfigSet()` with `CUDSS_CONFIG_HYBRID_DEVICE_MEMORY_LIMIT`. Optionally, the users can also query the minimal amount of device memory which the hybrid memory mode would need, by calling `cudssDataGet()` with `CUDSS_DATA_HYBRID_DEVICE_MEMORY_MIN`. The device memory limit can be set after the analysis phase but must be set before the factorization phase.
Note: `CUDSS_CONFIG_HYBRID_DEVICE_MEMORY_LIMIT` and `CUDSS_DATA_HYBRID_DEVICE_MEMORY_MIN` account for the total device memory needed for cuDSS, not just the factors.
Limitations:
* Factors L and U (together with all necessary internal arrays) must fit into the host memory.
* Hybrid memory mode must be enabled before the analysis phase.
* Currently, hybrid memory mode adds extra synchronization of the CUDA stream, in all phases.
* By default, hybrid memory mode uses `cudaHostRegister()`/`cudaHostUnregister()` (if the device supports it). As this sometimes can be slower than not using the host registered memory, there is a setting `CUDSS_CONFIG_USE_CUDA_REGISTER_MEMORY` to enable/disable usage of `cudaHostRegister()`.
* Currently, hybrid memory mode is not supported when `CUDSS_ALG_1` or `CUDSS_ALG_2` is used for reordering, or, when `CUDSS_ALG_1` is used for the factorization.
## Hybrid host/device execute mode#
Hybrid execute mode allows cuDSS to perform calculations on both GPU and CPU. Currently it is used to speed up execution parts with low parallelization capacity. For now, we recommend this feature for factorization and solving of small matrices.
Users can enable or disable the hybrid memory mode via calling `cudssConfigSet()` with the setting `CUDSS_CONFIG_HYBRID_EXECUTE_MODE`. Since using the hybrid execute mode implies changes to be done during the analysis phase, enabling the hybrid execute mode must be done before the call to `cudssExecute()` with `CUDSS_PHASE_ANALYSIS`.
Once the hybrid execute mode is enabled, the input matrix, right hand side and solution can be host memory pointers. For the input CSR matrix, `csr_offset`, `csr_columns` and `csr_values` can be host or device memory pointers independently. For example, `csr_offsets` and `csr_columns` can be device memory when `csr_values` is host memory.
Limitations:
* Hybrid execute mode must be enabled before the analysis phase.
* Currently, hybrid execute mode adds extra synchronization of the CUDA stream in all phases.
* Currently, hybrid execute mode is not supported when `CUDSS_CONFIG_HYBRID_MODE` or `MGMN` mode is used, or, when `batchCount` is greater than 1, or, when `CUDSS_CONFIG_REORDERING_ALG` is set to `CUDSS_ALG_1` or `CUDSS_ALG_2`. Also, it is not supported when `nrhs` is greater than 1 or when uniform batch options are enabled.
* The system’s input matrix should not change between the end of (RE)FACTORIZATION and the start of the corresponding SOLVE phase call(s). It might still work depending on whether the matrix arrays were on the host or device and where the solve phase computations happen but there are no guarantees.
## Multi-GPU multi-node (MGMN) mode#
The idea of the multi-GPU multi-node (MGMN) mode is to allow using multiple GPU devices in cuDSS by means of distributed computations with multiple processes. For flexibility, the MGMN mode is enabled by abstracting away all communication-specific primitives into a small separately built shim communication layer. </excerpt>
</source>
<source kind="search">
<title>cuDSS Data Types — NVIDIA cuDSS</title>
<location>https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/cudss/latest/types.html</location>
<excerpt>citeturn0search2 [wordlim: 200] Crawled: 6 days ago; A flag to enable or disable usage of `cudaHostRegister()` by cuDSS hybrid host/device memory mode. ... Uniform batches are not supported either: `CUDSS_CONFIG_UBATCH_SIZE` greater than 1 together with deterministic mode returns `CUDSS_STATUS_NOT_SUPPORTED`.
Memory mode: `0` (default = device-only) or `1` (hybrid = host/device).
Note: Hybrid host/device memory mode should be enabled before the analysis phase (`cudssExecute()` with `CUDSS_PHASE_ANALYSIS`). If the decision to use the hybrid mode is done after the analysis phase, the hybrid memory mode should be enabled and analysis phase must be re-done (which is sub-optimal).
Note: Unlike the hybrid host/device execution mode (see `CUDSS_CONFIG_HYBRID_EXECUTE_MODE`) which controls where compute kernels are executed, the hybrid memory mode only allows cuDSS to keep a part of the factor values (internal data) on the host and always uses the GPU for factorization and solve.
For more details, see Hybrid host/device memory mode feature.
Associated parameter type: `int`
Default value: `0` (disabled).
Currently not supported when `CUDSS_REORDERING_ALG_BTF_COLAMD` or `CUDSS_REORDERING_ALG_COLAMD` is used for reordering, or, when `CUDSS_FACTORIZATION_ALG_MULTIBLOCK` is used for the factorization.
Associated parameter type: `int *` (array of `CUDSS_CONFIG_DEVICE_COUNT` elements).
Default value: identity `0, 1, ..., device_count - 1` (after `cudssConfigCreate()`).
enumerator CUDSS_CONFIG_SCHUR_MODE#
Schur complement mode: `0` (default = disabled) or `1` (enabled).
For more details regarding the Schur complement feature, see Schur complement feature.
Associated parameter type: `int`
Default value: `0` (disabled).
Currently not supported when `CUDSS_REORDERING_ALG_BTF_COLAMD` or `CUDSS_REORDERING_ALG_COLAMD` is used for reordering, when MGMN mode or multi-GPU mode is used, or, when `CUDSS_FACTORIZATION_ALG_MULTIBLOCK` is used for the factorization. It is also not supported for uniform and non-uniform batches, or when matching is enabled.
enumerator CUDSS_CONFIG_DETERMINISTIC_MODE#
Enable deterministic mode. In deterministic mode, cuDSS is guaranteed to provide the bit-wise identical result at every run when executed on GPUs with the same architecture and the same number of SMs (assuming the input data and solver settings are also bit-wise identical).
Note: in deterministic mode cuDSS uses a different set of kernels which often might be slower than the kernels used in the default mode.
Associated parameter type: `int`
Default value: `0` (disabled).
Currently the feature is supported only for single-gpu, single rhs, and with both hybrid host/device memory mode (`CUDSS_CONFIG_HYBRID_MEMORY_MODE`) and hybrid host/device execute mode (`CUDSS_CONFIG_HYBRID_EXECUTE_MODE`) disabled. Uniform batches are not supported either: `CUDSS_CONFIG_UBATCH_SIZE` greater than 1 together with deterministic mode returns `CUDSS_STATUS_NOT_SUPPORTED`. Also, this feature does not support iterative refinement (`CUDSS_CONFIG_IR_N_STEPS` greater than 0) or the reordering algorithms `CUDSS_REORDERING_ALG_BTF_COLAMD` and `CUDSS_REORDERING_ALG_COLAMD`. The deterministic-mode setting used during analysis is part of the analyzed state. After analysis completes, changing this setting requires running analysis again; otherwise factorization, refactorization, or solve returns `CUDSS_STATUS_INVALID_VALUE`. Bunch-Kaufman pivoting does not support deterministic mode when superpanels are formed.
enumerator CUDSS_PIVOT_AUTO#
Automatic pivoting strategy [default]. Automatically selects the appropriate pivot type based on the reordering algorithm and matrix type:
* For `CUDSS_REORDERING_ALG_NESTED_DISSECTION`, `CUDSS_REORDERING_ALG_AMD`, and `CUDSS_REORDERING_ALG_NONE`:
* Symmetric/Hermitian indefinite matrices: Uses `CUDSS_PIVOT_BUNCH_KAUFMAN` whenever it is supported for the requested configuration (see below); otherwise falls back to `CUDSS_PIVOT_DIAGONAL`
* General matrices: Uses `CUDSS_PIVOT_LOCAL_BLOCK`
* SPD/HPD matrices: Uses `CUDSS_PIVOT_DIAGONAL` (numerical pivoting is effectively disabled, since the matrix type indicates no pivoting is needed)
* For `CUDSS_REORDERING_ALG_BTF_COLAMD` and `CUDSS_REORDERING_ALG_COLAMD`: Uses `CUDSS_PIVOT_GLOBAL_COL`
Unlike an explicit `CUDSS_PIVOT_BUNCH_KAUFMAN` request, AUTO never fails due to a rejected combination in Symmetric/Hermitian indefinite matrices: it falls back to `CUDSS_PIVOT_DIAGONAL` instead of selecting `CUDSS_PIVOT_BUNCH_KAUFMAN` whenever the requested configuration includes batching (`CUDSS_DATA_NSUPERPANELS`-style non-uniform batching, or uniform batching combined with `CUDSS_CONFIG_HYBRID_MEMORY_MODE`/ `CUDSS_CONFIG_HYBRID_EXECUTE_MODE`), an explicitly requested matching algorithm that would not use the Bunch-Kaufman symmetry-preserving matching path (see `CUDSS_PIVOT_BUNCH_KAUFMAN`), or `CUDSS_CONFIG_DETERMINISTIC_MODE`/`CUDSS_CONFIG_EMULATION_MANTISSA_BIT_COUNT` combined with superpanels enabled. See `CUDSS_PIVOT_BUNCH_KAUFMAN` for the full list of restrictions that still apply when it is requested explicitly.
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<title>cuDSS Advanced Features — NVIDIA cuDSS</title>
<location>https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/cudss/latest/advanced_features.html</location>
<excerpt>citeturn0search3 [wordlim: 200] Crawled: last week; Hybrid execute mode allows cuDSS to perform calculations on both GPU and CPU. ... * For solving systems with multiple right-hand sides `nrhs > 1`, a matrix must be provided with `nrhs > 1` to cudssExecute prior to the analyze phase. ... * Currently, hybrid execute mode adds extra synchronization of the CUDA stream in all phases.
## Hybrid host/device execute mode#
Hybrid execute mode allows cuDSS to perform calculations on both GPU and CPU. It is used to speed up execution parts with low parallelization capacity, and is now extended to cover the analysis step as well as MGMN and MG modes. It is recommended for factorization and solving of small and medium-sized matrices, where significant performance improvements can be expected.
Users can enable or disable the hybrid execute mode via calling `cudssConfigSet()` with the setting `CUDSS_CONFIG_HYBRID_EXECUTE_MODE`. Since using the hybrid execute mode implies changes to be done during the analysis phase, enabling the hybrid execute mode must be done before the call to `cudssExecute()` with `CUDSS_PHASE_ANALYSIS`.
Once the hybrid execute mode is enabled, the input matrix, right hand side and solution can be host memory pointers. For the input CSR matrix, `rowStart`, `rowEnd`, `colIndices` and `values` can be host or device memory pointers independently. </excerpt>
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- 1: https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/cudss/types.html?utm_source=openai
set -o pipefail
printf'%s\n''--- error macro ---'
sed -n '80,116p' cpp/src/barrier/sparse_cholesky.cuh
printf'%s\n''--- setting declarations and validation ---'
sed -n '160,195p' cpp/src/math_optimization/solver_settings.cu
sed -n '55,82p' cpp/src/dual_simplex/simplex_solver_settings.hpp
printf'%s\n''--- constructor and first execute boundary ---'
sed -n '155,190p' cpp/src/barrier/sparse_cholesky.cuh
sed -n '540,585p' cpp/src/barrier/sparse_cholesky.cuh
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Reject the incompatible cuDSS modes before configuration.
When cudss_deterministic is enabled and cudss_hybrid_execute_mode is 1, the constructor passes both settings to cuDSS. cuDSS 0.7.1 does not support this combination. Validate and reject it before either cudssConfigSet call. If cuDSS rejects the configuration, CUDSS_CALL_AND_CHECK_EXIT terminates the process instead of returning a solver validation error.
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In the constructor’s cuDSS configuration flow, validate the combination of
`cudss_deterministic` enabled and `cudss_hybrid_execute_mode` equal to 1 before
either `cudssConfigSet` call. Return a solver validation error for this
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cuDSS does not support hybrid execute mode together with deterministic
mode. Return a ValidationError in run_barrier instead of letting the
cudssConfigSet failure exit the process.
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Reject hybrid execute modes outside -1..1.
607-607: Major · Stability & Availability · Quick win
Reject hybrid execute modes outside -1..1.
Direct C++ callers can assign 2 to pdlp_solver_settings_t::cudss_hybrid_execute_mode. cuDSS 0.7.1 supports only modes 0 and 1; an invalid value can return CUDSS_STATUS_INVALID_VALUE. CUDSS_CALL_AND_CHECK_EXIT then terminates the host process.
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{
+ cuopt_expects(settings.cudss_hybrid_execute_mode >= -1 &&+ settings.cudss_hybrid_execute_mode <= 1,+ error_type_t::ValidationError,+ "cudss_hybrid_execute_mode must be -1, 0, or 1.");
cuopt_expects(!(settings.cudss_deterministic && settings.cudss_hybrid_execute_mode == 1),
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Review comment at @cpp/src/pdlp/solve.cu at line 607:
Validate `settings.cudss_hybrid_execute_mode` in the settings-validation flow
before assigning it to `barrier_settings.cudss_hybrid_execute_mode`; accept only
-1, 0, or 1 and report invalid values with a validation error. Preserve the
existing deterministic-mode validation.
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The JSON API is frozen; the new parameters keep their C++ defaults
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Add boundary tests for both cuDSS settings.
The new test covers the rejected deterministic/hybrid combination, but not the setting values passed to cuDSS. Test ND levels -1, 0, 1, and 2, and hybrid modes -1, 0, and 1. Assert which values reach cuDSS and which are ignored.
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Add boundary tests for `cudss_nd_nlevels` and `cudss_hybrid_execute_mode` in the
cuDSS setup path that assigns these fields to `barrier_settings`. Cover ND
levels -1, 0, 1, and 2, and hybrid modes -1, 0, and 1; assert which values are
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- Line 189: Update validation for CUOPT_CUDSS_ND_NLEVELS in the solver settings
configuration so values 0 and 1 are rejected or the ignored-value fallback is
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Report ignored ND levels in concurrent solves.
Values 0 and 1 pass this range check but are ignored by cuDSS. In concurrent solves, run_barrier disables the logger that reports this fallback, so users receive no warning. Can the validation path reject these values or report the fallback through the shared logger?
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Update validation for CUOPT_CUDSS_ND_NLEVELS in the solver settings
configuration so values 0 and 1 are rejected or the ignored-value fallback is
reported through the shared logger in concurrent solves. Preserve the existing
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Invalidate the barrier workspace when cuDSS settings change.
After an optimal sequence solve and an objective or RHS update, a re-solve can reuse the Cholesky object with its old cuDSS configuration. For example, changing hybrid mode from 1 to 0 and enabling determinism passes the guard, but the cached object retains hybrid mode 1 and does not enable determinism.
Rebuild the cached workspace when these settings change, while preserving staged model updates.
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Update the cached-workspace reuse guard in the solve path to detect changes in
cuDSS settings, including `cudss_hybrid_execute_mode` and determinism-related
settings, and rebuild the workspace when they differ from the configuration used
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Expose cuDSS CUDSS_CONFIG_ND_NLEVELS and CUDSS_CONFIG_HYBRID_EXECUTE_MODE (both available in cuDSS 0.7.1) as solver settings. Both default to -1, which leaves the cuDSS default unchanged. ND levels below 2 are rejected by cuDSS, so they are ignored with a log message.
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