Comparing cuda fft and matlab fft

Hi all, I’ve got my cuda (FX Quadro 1700) running in Fedora 8, and now i’m trying to get some evidence of speed up by comparing it with the fft of matlab.

The matlab code and the simple cuda code i use to get the timing are pasted below. Now i’m having problem in observing speedup caused by cuda. Currently when i call the function timing(2048*2048, 6), my output is

CUFFT: 

Elapsed time is 1.038155 seconds.

MATLAB FFT: 

Elapsed time is 1.596426 seconds.

which doesn’t seem so impressive…

So can anyone point how i can get speedup of maybe 10x in fft code just as mentioned in the white paper in this page? Thanks in advance!

timing.m ( it can be called by issuing command “timing(2048, 4)” as an example )

function [a, b] = timing(datasize, batch) 

d = zeros(datasize, batch);

for i = 1:datasize

    d(i,:) = i;

end

disp('CUFFT: '); tic; a = mexCUFFT(d); toc;

disp('MATLAB FFT: '); tic; b = fft(d); toc;

mexCUFFT.cu (compiled with the command “$MATLAB_CUDA/nvmex -f $MATLAB_CUDA/nvopts.sh -I/usr/local/cuda/include -L/usr/local/cuda/lib -lcufft -lcudart” where $MATLAB_CUDA is the path of the matlab plugin for cuda)

#include "cufft.h"

#include "cuda.h"

#include "mex.h"

#include "cuda_runtime.h"

void pack_r2c(cufftComplex  *output_float, 

              double *input_re, 

              int Ntot)

{

    int i;

    for (i = 0; i < Ntot; i++) 

       {

               output_float[i].x = input_re[i];

               output_float[i].y = 0.0f;

       }

}

void pack_c2c(cufftComplex  *output_float, 

              double *input_re, 

              double *input_im, 

              int Ntot)

{

    int i;

    for (i = 0; i < Ntot; i++) 

      {

               output_float[i].x = input_re[i];

               output_float[i].y = input_im[i];

      }

}

void unpack_c2c(cufftComplex  *input_float, 

                double *output_re, 

                double *output_im,  

                int Ntot)

{

    int i;

    for (i = 0; i < Ntot; i++) 

    {

        output_re[i] = input_float[i].x;

        output_im[i] = input_float[i].y;

    }

}

cufftComplex *runfft(cufftComplex *data, int m, int n);

// Program use to calculate the fft for a simple matrix.

void mexFunction(int nlhs, mxArray *plhs[], int nrhs, const mxArray *prhs[])

{

    int m, n;

    double *inDataR, *inDataI, *outDataR, *outDataI;

    cufftComplex *data;

    

    if( nrhs < 1 ) mexErrMsgTxt( "Input argument not defined." );

    m = mxGetM(prhs[0]);

    n = mxGetN(prhs[0]);

   /* Allocating host memory. */

    data = (cufftComplex *)mxMalloc(sizeof(cufftComplex) * n * m);

    

    inDataR = mxGetPr(prhs[0]);

   if( mxIsComplex(prhs[0]) )

    {

	/* If it is a complex data. */

	inDataI = mxGetPi(prhs[0]);

	pack_c2c( data, inDataR, inDataI, m*n );

   }

    else

    {

	/* If it is a real data. */

	pack_r2c( data, inDataR, m*n );

    }

    

    data = runfft(data, m, n);

   plhs[0] = mxCreateDoubleMatrix(m, n, mxCOMPLEX);

    outDataR = mxGetPr(plhs[0]);

    outDataI = mxGetPi(plhs[0]);

   unpack_c2c(data, outDataR, outDataI, n*m); 

   mxFree(data);

    return;

}

cufftComplex *runfft(cufftComplex *data, int m, int n)

{

   // Allocate device memory for data

    cufftComplex *d_data;

    cudaMalloc( (void **)&d_data, sizeof(cufftComplex) * m * n );

   // Copy host memory to device

    cudaMemcpy(d_data, data, m * n * sizeof(cufftComplex), cudaMemcpyHostToDevice);

   // CUFFT plan

    cufftHandle plan;

    cufftPlan1d(&plan, m, CUFFT_C2C, n);

   // FFT execution

    cufftExecC2C(plan, (cufftComplex *)d_data, (cufftComplex *)d_data, CUFFT_FORWARD);

   // Copy result to host

    cudaMemcpy(data, d_data, n*m * sizeof(cufftComplex), cudaMemcpyDeviceToHost);

   // Clear device memory

    cufftDestroy(plan);

    cudaFree(d_data);

    return data;

}

so does anyone know anything about this?
what’s the speedup that u guys got in CUFFT?

Well the matlab plugin has an example that also uses FFT in which I see great speedups. So you might want to see how much speedup you have there. If that has a lot of speedup for you you can start to look at what is different between the two (length of fft, etc.)

Hi shinkee :)

Matlab’s fft() uses the libfftw3 library [FFTW stands for “Fastest Fourier Transform in the West” x)]. I assume that the paper you are referring to compares the CUFFT with a standard FFT implementation? Have a look at [url=“http://www.science.uwaterloo.ca/~hmerz/CUDA_benchFFT/”]http://www.science.uwaterloo.ca/~hmerz/CUDA_benchFFT/[/url] for the expected performance gain when using Matlab.

:) stefan

I have the same question, look here: [url=“The Official NVIDIA Forums | NVIDIA”]The Official NVIDIA Forums | NVIDIA

I am new to CUDA, but don’t forget that there is significant overhead involved in simply passing the data to CUDA and then retrieving it back again. Therefore, perhaps you should first measure the amount of time it takes to send the (same amount) of data to the GPU and back again (with no CUDA processing), and then subtract that from the CUDA FFT runtime to get a better idea of how much processing time it takes, and hence, how well it scales to larger problems.