How do I take poisson draws with poissrnd() using GPU resources via arrayfun?

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Everything works as expected; however, I need to model a different stochastic process.
When I swap out "randn()" for "poissrnd(1)" (the argument does not matter), I get the following error:
"Error using call_test (line 89)
Variable number of inputs is not supported.
For more information see Tips.
Error in 'poissrnd' (line: 1)"
How do I modify my poisson draw to avoid this error? Is there another function I should use instead?
"poissrnd" is listed as supported, so I imagine I'm just using it incorrectly, but I haven't found a GPU-specific use case example: https://www.mathworks.com/help/stats/referencelist.html?type=function&capability=gpuarrays
I've also tried using "random('Poisson',0.1,1,1)" but then the different error:
"Character arrays are not supported.
For more information see Tips."
I don't think this is a hardware/cuda issue, but here is the result of "gpuDevice" in case it is helpful.
CUDADevice with properties:
Name: 'TITAN RTX'
Index: 1
ComputeCapability: '7.5'
SupportsDouble: 1
DriverVersion: 10.2000
ToolkitVersion: 10.1000
MaxThreadsPerBlock: 1024
MaxShmemPerBlock: 49152
MaxThreadBlockSize: [1024 1024 64]
MaxGridSize: [2.1475e+09 65535 65535]
SIMDWidth: 32
TotalMemory: 2.5394e+10
AvailableMemory: 2.3413e+10
MultiprocessorCount: 72
ClockRateKHz: 1770000
ComputeMode: 'Default'
GPUOverlapsTransfers: 1
KernelExecutionTimeout: 1
CanMapHostMemory: 1
DeviceSupported: 1
DeviceSelected: 1

Answers (1)

Joss Knight
Joss Knight on 28 Jun 2020
As you can see from the documentation, poissrnd is not a function that is support by the FUN argument of gpuArray/arrayfun. You are seeing this error because the poissrnd function is implemented in MATLAB code and so arrayfun is trying to flow through and execute the code as a sub-function. However, poissrnd uses varargin, which isn't supported by gpuArray/arrayfun's support for sub-functions.
You could try taking a copy of the poissrnd code and seeing if you can modify it to remove the limitations.

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