Error using gpuArray Maximum variable size allowed on the device is exceeded.
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>> X = gpuArray(X);
>> Error using gpuArray
>> Maximum variable size allowed on the device is exceeded.
My X has the size
[230227128 10] = size(X)
230227128 x 10 > 2147483647 == int32
I am using
R2019a (9.6.0.1072779)
64-bit (win64)
March 8, 2019
and GPU has 45 GB (RTX 8000 48 GiB).
I am aware that there is a hard limit of GPU memory usage in Matlab.
But it is indeed discouraging and I am trying to write a C++ code to circumvent it.
Can there be a hotfix on this?
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Joss Knight
on 2 Nov 2020
The NVIDIA libraries that MATLAB uses to do GPU computation store array lengths as 32-bit integers and therefore MATLAB cannot use any of those libraries for arrays with more than intmax('int32') elements. Therefore this is a hard limit on the array size. Try dividing your computation up.
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Subhash Chandra Ranga
on 9 Aug 2021
May I know how to split the data then feed it to a function and again combine the result
John Lee
on 9 Nov 2022
I am experiencing the same problem. I just started to use a A100 80GB PCIe anticipating to calculate eig() on a single very large matrix close to half of the GPU memory size. And I found this post.
The gpuArray size limit of intmax('uint32') seems to be too restrictive these days. It means I could just use 3090Ti or even 1080Ti since I don't use many gpuArray variables simultaneously.
Is there a MATLAB's plan to increase the gpuArray size limit to intmax('uint64'), or
is there a multi-step numerical algorithm to make the input matrix to eig() smaller and achieve the same end result (I doubt)?
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