Disable the gpu.

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María del Carmen Salas Casas 2023-1-13

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评论： Joss Knight 2023-3-24

Good morning,

I have matlab version 2022b and I would like to disable the system GPU from the matlab application so that it does not recognise it and runs the programs only using the cpu. Could you tell me if it is possible to do it and how to do it? I would like to do it from the application itself, as disabling the gpu from the system is more laborious and I just want matlab to not recognise it.

Thank you.

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Joss Knight 2023-1-15

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As soon as you start MATLAB type

setenv CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES -1

MATLAB will no longer recognise any GPU for computation.

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Walter Roberson 2023-1-15

Interesting!

I take it that variable is only tested the first time that gpu would be relevant, and that there is no way to force the test to be reset?

Joss Knight 2023-1-15

This is a variable recognised by the CUDA driver and only checked when the driver is initialized, which happens the first time you use or query the GPU. So correct, there is no way to reset this without restarting MATLAB. Alternatively, use a process pool which can be stopped and restarted at will.

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Luca Ferro 2023-1-13

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the command:

gpuDevice([]);

should do the trick.

Mind that it requires that the Parallel Computing Toolbox is installed.

For more informations you can check here

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Walter Roberson 2023-1-13

在 MATLAB Online 中打开

If you have code along the lines of

if gpu is detected
  run deep learning on gpu
else
  run deep learning on cpu
end

and you want to calculate the timings both ways without changing the detection test... then selecting the empty gpu is probably not going to be enough. But it would depend on how the gpu detection is coded.

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Matt J 2023-1-13

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编辑：Matt J 2023-1-13

Matlab will use the CPU by default unless you have in some way told it to use the GPU for a specific computation.

An exception might be the trainNetwork and predict commands, if you are doing DNN training or inference. Those commands have an option, however, called ExecutionEnvironment that you can use to specify CPU-only computation.

https://www.mathworks.com/help/deeplearning/ref/trainingoptions.html#d124e171461

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Joss Knight 2023-3-24

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dlnetwork's execution environment is determined by the attributes of its input data and parameters. If you don't explicitly move anything to the GPU, it will run on the CPU. You can think of predict as a function with the input data and network parameters as inputs. As for all gpuArray behaviour, if any of those inputs are on the GPU then any operations with them will take place on the GPU and result in gpuArray outputs.

To move back and forth:

inputData = gpuArray(inputData); % Move data to GPU
net = dlupdate(@gpuArray, net);  % Optional: move network learnables to GPU
net.State = dlupdate(@gpuArray, net.State); % Optional: for stateful networks
inputData = gather(inputData);   % Move data back to CPU
net = dlupdate(@gather, net);    % Move network learnables
net.State = dlupdate(@gather, net.State);

Moving the network back and forth isn't ever strictly necessary, but for example if you wish to do training on the GPU but inference on the CPU, you will need to gather the network because the network will naturally become moved to the GPU as its learnables and state are updated during training. Save/load will also move a network back to the CPU.