problem assigning threads

Hi,

this is probably a really newbie question, but I really do need help here conceptually.

So please excuse me, if my questions or problems are simple.

I’m trying to implement a Radix-4 FFT on a kernel. Problem is, I think that it should be

really parallel friendly, but I don’t have a good idea of how to organize threads.

I reworked the code, so that instead the innermost for loop I have threads,

and this does work correctly for 4^6 samples. Anything higher,

and I can’t have a thread for a sample, and my code falls apart, giving strange results.

I think that it’s mainly due to synchronisation, and I probably should make the grid 2d,

but I don’t really have any good idea of how to do it.

(the cuComplex struct was lifted from CUDA by Examples book)

Any ideas would be really appreciated.

#include "math.h"

#ifndef PI

#define PI           3.14159265358979

#endif

struct cuComplex {

float r;

float i;

cuComplex( float a, float b ) : r(a), i(b) {}

__device__ float magnitude2( void ) {

return r * r + i * i;

}

__device__ cuComplex operator*(const cuComplex& a) {

return cuComplex(r*a.r - i*a.i, i*a.r + r*a.i);

}

__device__ cuComplex operator+(const cuComplex& a) {

return cuComplex(r+a.r, i+a.i);

}

__device__ cuComplex operator-(const cuComplex& a) {

return cuComplex(r-a.r, i-a.i);

}

};

__global__ void radix(float *re_s, float *im_s,  int p ,int N) {

	

	

int n=blockIdx.x * blockDim.x + threadIdx.x;

int iy=blockIdx.y * blockDim.y + threadIdx.y;

int M = N/4;

cuComplex w(0.0,0.0), a(0.0,0.0), b(0.0,0.0),c(0.0,0.0),d(0.0,0.0), temp(0.0,0.0),

		  x1(0.0,0.0),x2(0.0,0.0),x3(0.0,0.0),x4(0.0,0.0), j(0.0, 1.0), mj(0.0,-1.0);

	

	for (int stage = 1; stage <=p; stage++) {	

			

		int k=iy*(N/(pow(4.0,stage-1)));

				

			if (n <= M-1 && k <= N-1) {

			

				

					x1.r = re_s[n+1+k];

					x1.i = im_s[n+1+k];

					x2.r = re_s[n+(M)+1+k];

					x2.i = im_s[n+(M)+1+k];

					x3.r = re_s[n+(2*M)+1+k];

					x3.i = im_s[n+(2*M)+1+k];

					x4.r = re_s[n+(3*M)+1+k];

					x4.i = im_s[n+(3*M)+1+k];

				

					a = x1+x2+x3+x4;

					b = x1 + mj*x2-x3+j*x4;

					c= x1-x2+x3-x4;

					d = x1+j*x2-x3+mj*x4;

					///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

					/////////  1  /////////////

					w.r = cos(((-2.0*PI)/N)* (0) *(pow(4.0,stage-1)));

					w.i = sin(((-2.0*PI)/N)* (0) *(pow(4.0,stage-1)));

				 temp = w*a;

				//	temp = complmul(w, a);

					re_s[n+1+k] = temp.r;

					im_s[n+1+k] = temp.i;

					/////////  2  /////////////

					w.r = cos(((-2.0*PI)/N)* (n*1) *(pow(4.0,stage-1)));

					w.i = sin(((-2.0*PI)/N)* (n*1) *(pow(4.0,stage-1)));

				//	temp = complmul(w, b);

				temp = w*b;

					re_s[M+n+1+k] = temp.r;

					im_s[M+n+1+k] = temp.i;

					/////////  3 /////////////

					w.r = cos(((-2.0*PI)/N)* (n*2) *(pow(4.0,stage-1)));

					w.i = sin(((-2.0*PI)/N)* (n*2) *(pow(4.0,stage-1)));

				//	temp = complmul(w, c);

				temp = w*c;

					re_s[M*2+n+1+k] = temp.r;

					im_s[M*2+n+1+k] = temp.i;

					/////////  4  /////////////

					w.r = cos(((-2.0*PI)/N)* (n*3) *(pow(4.0,stage-1)));

					w.i = sin(((-2.0*PI)/N)* (n*3) *(pow(4.0,stage-1)));

				//	temp = complmul(w, d);

				temp = w*d;

					re_s[M*3+n+1+k] = temp.r;

					im_s[M*3+n+1+k] = temp.i;

					

					}

					

					M=M/4;	

				}

		

			

	

	}

Bumping :P

so I reworked the code a little in my free time. It now does indeed work and for big datasets (4^10 at least) but one problem is still bugging me. If you plot the output it’s really jaggy, and becomes more jaggy as the dataset increases.

Anybody has any ideas as to why it may happen?