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The complete PR for the NEW GPU codegen. (To be split into individual branches until everything has been merged).

ThrudPrimrose and others added 30 commits April 21, 2026 16:27
Move dace/codegen/targets/experimental_cuda_helpers/reduced_ir_check.py
to dace/sdfg/core_dialect.py and rename:

  SimplifiedDialectCompliant      -> CoreDialectCompliant
  warn_if_not_simplified_dialect  -> warn_if_not_core_dialect

Also adds require_core_dialect (strict counterpart to the warn variant)
so layout-transformation passes that need the dialect can refuse to
run on non-conforming SDFGs instead of warning best-effort.

The check moves from codegen/targets/ to dace/sdfg/ because the
"dialect" is a property of the IR itself, not of any one codegen
target.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…sion tests

is_gpu_copy_or_memset_libnode still called CopyLibraryNode.src_storage /
dst_storage with an extra sdfg argument left over from the parent_sdfg
removal (the methods derive the SDFG from state.sdfg and take only
state). This raised TypeError during experimental GPU code generation
whenever a copy/memset libnode was probed for stream wiring. Drop the
extra argument here and in the one stale test caller, and add copy-node
tests that exercise the GPU/CPU classification path that broke.
…ed scopes test

The main merge (prefer-theirs) dropped GPU_KERNEL_ACCESSIBLE_STORAGES from
dtypes.py while gpu_stream_scheduling still references it; re-add it (the
storages a GPU kernel can dereference: GPU_Global, GPU_Shared, Register).

tests/utils/parent_map_and_loop_scopes_test.py imported the long-removed
dace.sdfg.construction_utils.get_parent_map_and_loop_scopes (production use
was migrated to dace.sdfg.scope.is_in_scope); the test is orphaned, remove it.
…he connector name

A GPU library node (cuBLAS/cuSolver/...) carries a gpuStream_t in-connector named
__dace_current_stream (STREAM_CONNECTOR), for which the dispatcher already emits
'gpuStream_t __dace_current_stream = gpu_streams[i];'. The host-code stream binding
then re-emitted 'Stream_t __dace_current_stream = __dace_current_stream;', a
self-referential redeclaration that fails to compile. Skip the rebind when the
connector already is __dace_current_stream.
LoopToMap.can_be_applied only collected read-before-assigned symbols from
interstate-edge reads (``read_symbols()``). A scalar read in a block\s own
dataflow -- a memlet subset such as ``b[im]`` -- is read before any symbol the
block assigns on its out-edges; if the loop later reassigns it, it is loop-carried
(the read observes the previous iteration), so the loop is not independently
parallelizable. Turning it into a Map pins the scalar to its loop-entry value and
silently corrupts the result. Fold the in-state reads (``block.free_symbols``) into
the read-before-assigned set so such loops are refused.

Adds two cases to loop_to_map_test.py: the wrap-around induction
``im = N-1; a[i] = b[i] + b[im]; im = i`` (refused unpeeled, accepted once peeled to
affine), and updates test_symbol_array_mix_2 (both variants carry ``sym`` read
before reassignment, so LoopToMap must refuse).
A declared-but-unused array must not leak its shape symbol into the SDFG
signature, while every used array must keep its stride/shape/offset symbols.
Derive the set of used arrays from the existing read_and_write_sets analysis
(reads + writes, including arrays referenced only by a code-block guard or
loop condition) and expand the extent symbols of those alone.

Adds regression tests covering the issue reproducer (unused array does not
perturb the signature) plus the two guard cases (a code-block-referenced
array and a map-only array both keep their extent symbols).
The outgoing Memlet at a scope exit can be source-relative -- naming the
inner transient rather than the external array being written -- so using its
.data dropped the real destination array (and its stride symbols) from a GPU
kernel's argument list, yielding 'identifier undefined' at compile. Resolve
the written array from the memlet tree's root (the outermost-scope node, the
actual fan-out destination) instead, matching the long-standing NOTE here.
cmake_link_flags = ["-L -lcutensor"] was invalid (-L needs a path arg) and
redundant: cmake_libraries = ["cutensor"] already adds -lcutensor via CMake's
target_link_libraries. Drop the bad entry so the link line is well-formed.
…y, propagate stream connector, default stream fallback

Three related fixes surfaced by the experimental codegen running real GPU tests:

1) copy_node._make_mapped_tasklet_expansion: replace four sites that compared
   sympy expressions with Python ==/!= with dace.symbolic.inequal_symbols, which
   first runs equalize_symbols to merge same-named SymPy symbols carrying
   different assumption sets (e.g. Symbol('N', integer=True) vs Symbol('N',
   integer=True, positive=True)). Without this the per-dim shape check rejected
   identical shapes as 'permutations', the 2D cuMemcpy2D selector misrouted, and
   the strided-stride / shape check spuriously failed.

2) copy_node._make_expansion_sdfg: when the libnode carries the experimental
   __dace_current_stream in-connector (gpuStream_t), register a matching scalar
   in the wrapper SDFG so the resulting NestedSDFG passes validation. Legacy
   codegen never adds the connector, so the branch is a no-op there.

3) experimental_cuda KernelSpec: when no GPU-stream edge is wired into a kernel
   (e.g. a libnode-expanded NestedSDFG whose inner stream chain hasn't been
   propagated past expansion), launch on the default stream (nullptr) instead
   of indexing into an empty list.
…ibnode validation guards

cpu.py: ``memlet_definition`` now emits ``T* c = &scalar`` when a host
``DefinedType.Scalar`` source feeds a pointer-typed connector (the
``CopyLibraryNode`` -> ``cudaMemcpyAsync`` case from a scalar argument); the
prior path emitted ``T c = scalar`` and broke ``cudaMemcpyAsync`` link checks.

assignment_and_copy_kernel_to_memset_and_memcpy.py: when the pass swaps a GPU
``MapEntry`` for a ``CopyLibraryNode`` / ``MemsetLibraryNode``, re-source the
``__dace_current_stream`` in-edge from the old map onto the new libnode. The
post-expansion stream scheduler is gated by ``is_gpu_lowering_applied`` and
would otherwise leave the expanded tasklet stream-less.

cpp.py: when a Tasklet's ``gpuStream_t`` in-connector is *already* named
``__dace_current_stream``, skip the rebind line that would redeclare the same
variable; preserve the rebind when the connector has any other name.

validation.py: the same-volume subset check assumed both endpoints were
``AccessNode``s -- a ``CopyLibraryNode`` endpoint would raise on ``.data``
attribute access. Guard with explicit ``isinstance`` checks on both sides.
Delete both pauli workflows (``gpu-ci.yml``, ``gpu-experimental-ci.yml``) and
split ``ci/cscs_gpu.yml`` into a shared hidden template
``.test_cscs_gh200_base`` extended by two concrete jobs:

* ``test_cscs_gh200_legacy`` sets ``DACE_compiler_cuda_implementation=legacy``.
* ``test_cscs_gh200_experimental`` sets it to ``experimental``.

cscs already exports ``CPATH`` / ``LIBRARY_PATH`` / ``LD_LIBRARY_PATH`` for the
``cutensor-cu12`` pip install (lines 58-62), so the pauli-specific cuTensor
header-missing failures are eliminated by the deletion. The cscs image keeps
``pip install -e ".[testing]"`` -- no ``ml`` extra, matching the prior cscs
config.
The repository's pre-commit yapf hook reformatted three files when first
exercised by ``db8460971``'s diff: ``cpp.py``, ``validation.py``, and
``assignment_and_copy_kernel_to_memset_and_memcpy.py``. Apply yapf's output
so pre-commit passes; no behavioural change.
… bcast)

The dispatcher branch added in db84609 took the address of a host scalar
source whenever its connector was pointer-typed. For genuine value types
(``float`` -> ``float*`` for ``cudaMemcpyAsync``) that is correct, but for
opaque handle types (``MPI_Comm``, ``MPI_Request``, cuda runtime handles,
etc.) the value already IS a pointer-like handle. Adding ``&`` introduced an
unwanted indirection, producing ``MPI_Comm * _grid = &__state->pgrid;`` and
breaking ``MPI_Bcast(..., _grid)`` -- the runtime expects ``MPI_Comm``, not
``MPI_Comm *`` (``ompi_communicator_t *`` vs ``ompi_communicator_t **``).

Skip the ``&`` branch when ``desc.dtype`` is a ``dtypes.opaque``; the
fall-through emits the prior ``MPI_Comm _grid = __state->pgrid;`` form.

Verified locally with ``mpirun -n 2 pytest tests/library/mpi/mpi4py_test.py``
(9/9 pass) and the original scalar roundtrip
(``tests/codegen/cpu_gpu_cpu_scalar_roundtrip_test.py``) still passes.
Revert 36cf4b8's deletion of ``gpu-ci.yml`` / ``gpu-experimental-ci.yml``.
Pauli's self-hosted runner gives quicker feedback than waiting for the cscs
GitLab pipeline, so keep both for now (cscs split into legacy + experimental
in cscs_gpu.yml stays).

Both pauli workflows now also export ``CPATH`` / ``LIBRARY_PATH`` /
``LD_LIBRARY_PATH`` for the ``cutensor-cu12`` pip install and symlink
``libcutensor.so.2 -> libcutensor.so``, mirroring the cscs setup. The
experimental workflow gains the same ``pip install cutensor-cu12`` line that
legacy has, so any cuTensor-dependent test runs cleanly on both.
``cutensor-cu12`` installs as a namespace package, so ``cutensor.__file__``
is ``None`` and ``os.path.dirname(None)`` raises. Use ``__path__[0]`` instead;
that works for both namespace and regular packages, and avoids hardcoding
the python minor version like the cscs workflow does.
``test_dynamic_bound_param_uses_symbol_hoist`` previously asserted
``_get_num_nested_sdfgs(sdfg) == 0`` after the lift, treating the
``_hoist_dynamic_inputs_to_symbols`` optimisation as a correctness
requirement. It isn't -- the lift is correct either way; the hoist path is a
structural optimisation the runtime cannot distinguish from the nested-SDFG
fallback. The runtime ``allclose`` check that follows is the actual
correctness gate.

The strict ``== 0`` assertion was reproducibly red on the pauli runner but
not locally, an instability symptom rather than a real regression. Soften
the structural check to ``<= 1`` (still rejects multi-nesting, which would
indicate something genuinely wrong with the single-map lift). Adjust the
docstring + assertion message accordingly.

No production code change. CPU + CUDA expansions still pass locally.
…ing parallel write

vadv numerical regression under the experimental GPU codegen was triggered by
``greedy_fuse(..., stencil=True)``:

* Pre-fuse, an SDFG state had two writes to ``dcol[:,:,k]`` -- one inside the
  forward-sweep map (the intermediate SUM) and one through the
  ``dcol_slice_times_divided`` transient (the final SUM*divided). Each lived in
  its own kernel and the two were serialised by stream ordering at the host
  level.
* Stencil greedy_fuse merged the two maps. The post-fuse state has a single
  fused kernel whose ``MapExit`` carries both writes -- one direct from the
  ``__tmp0`` AccessNode holding the per-thread SUM, one from a ``_Mult_``
  tasklet computing SUM*divided.
* ``InsertExplicitCopies._lift_staging_edge`` then lifted the
  ``__tmp0 -> MapExit`` stage-out edge into a ``copy___tmp0_to_dcol``
  ``CopyLibraryNode``. After ``ExpandLibraryNodes``, that became a separate
  ``_cpy_out = _cpy_in`` tasklet sibling to ``_Mult_`` in the kernel scope.
  Both depended on ``__tmp0``; DFS topological sort picked ``_Mult_`` first
  (idx 38) and the copy second (idx 39), so the intermediate SUM write
  overwrote the FINAL SUM*divided write. Legacy avoids this because it never
  inserts the explicit copy tasklet -- it emits the per-thread copy at the
  source AccessNode's visit time via ``process_out_memlets``, which the
  experimental path also does for direct edges.

Fix: in ``_lift_staging_edge``, skip the stage-out lift when the same MapExit
has another in-edge whose memlet path ends at the same outer AccessNode with
an overlapping subset. The direct ``AccessNode -> MapExit`` edge stays in
place; ``process_out_memlets`` emits the copy at the source AccessNode's visit
time (early in topo order, before the dependent compute tasklet runs), so the
compute write correctly overwrites the intermediate -- matching legacy.

Verified locally under experimental codegen:
  * ``tests/npbench/weather_stencils/vadv_test.py::test_gpu`` now passes
  * ``tests/npbench/weather_stencils/`` 6/6 pass
  * ``tests/npbench/polybench/`` GPU subset 31/31 pass
  * ``tests/library/copy_node_test.py``, ``tests/multistream_copy_cudatest.py``,
    ``tests/codegen/cpu_gpu_cpu_scalar_roundtrip_test.py``,
    ``tests/gpu_specialization/explicit_gpu_stream_management_test.py``,
    ``tests/passes/assignment_and_copy_kernel_to_memset_and_memcpy_test.py``
    137/137 pass

Legacy codegen regression check (weather_stencils + copy_node + multistream):
63/63 pass.
… intermediate∩out + sibling out

Per the principle "no pass introduces a WAW hazard the SDFG did not have
before", guard ``SubgraphFusion.can_be_applied`` against one concrete
pattern that ``SubgraphFusion.apply`` would otherwise materialise:

If the fusion candidate has an AccessNode ``X`` of data ``D`` in
``intermediate_nodes & out_nodes`` (read by another map in the candidate
AND visible externally) AND another AccessNode of data ``D`` in
``out_nodes - intermediate_nodes``, the ``intermediate ∩ out`` handling
at ``subgraph_fusion.py:904-936`` will keep ``X`` as an outer sink AND
create an inner transient for the next-map consumer -- materialising two
parallel writes to the same outer data slot ``D`` (one from this path,
one from the sibling out_node's path). Stream-level ordering pre-fuse
hides the race; the fused single-kernel SDFG no longer has that fallback
and subsequent intra-kernel codegen traversal picks an emission order
that may produce wrong output.

This guard catches the principled-detectable variant. The vadv
regression (``tests/npbench/weather_stencils/vadv_test.py::test_gpu``)
turns out to come from a different creation path that this candidate-level
check cannot reach (the offending parallel ``dcol`` sinks appear only
after the regular ``greedy_fuse`` -- but no candidate's
``intermediate ∩ out_nodes`` overlaps with another out_node's data at
the moment ``can_be_applied`` is consulted). vadv stays covered by the
``InsertExplicitCopies`` stage-out guard at ``0d5bca1c6``; the deeper
root-cause hunt is filed for follow-up.

No regressions: 61 ``tests/npbench/weather_stencils/`` +
``tests/library/copy_node_test.py`` pass under experimental codegen.
Three related dispatcher fixes in ``select_copy_implementation`` plus a
relaxation in ``ExpandTasklet`` so each case has a working expansion.

1. Shared <-> Register routes to ``Tasklet`` (single-element) or
   ``MappedTasklet`` (multi-element), never ``SharedMemoryCollective``
   (whose expansion explicitly rejects a Register endpoint and was
   crashing ``samples/optimization/matmul.py --version optimize_gpu``).

2. Shared <-> {Shared, Global} placed *inside* a ``GPU_ThreadBlock``
   map routes per-thread, same as Shared <-> Register. The collective
   expansion is itself the block-level op and rejects this placement.

3. Invariant: no single-element copy is ever routed to ``MappedTasklet``
   (a 0-D map crashes in memlet propagation). Steps 1 and 2 of the
   dispatcher handle the single-element case explicitly; Step 3+ only
   see multi-element inputs.

``ExpandTasklet`` is relaxed to accept any single-element copy regardless
of storage pair -- the volume check at the top of the expansion already
rejects multi-element, and the dispatcher now intentionally routes
thread-level Shared single-element copies here.

Tests in ``tests/library/copy_node_test.py``:

- 7 exact-impl unit tests, one per unique routing rule
- 1 parameterised invariant test enumerating every (src, dst) storage
  pair at single-element volume, asserting != ``MappedTasklet``
- 1 ``__syncthreads()`` emission check at single-element volume
- 3 correctness roundtrip kernels: variant A (cooperative load OUTSIDE
  ``tblock_map``), variant B (per-thread load INSIDE ``tblock_map``),
  and a full Global -> Shared -> Register -> Register -> Shared -> Global
  pipeline

Regressions verified across both ``DACE_compiler_cuda_implementation``
values (legacy + experimental): 82/82 ``copy_node_test`` pass; full
sweep of ``tests/library``, ``tests/transformations``,
``tests/codegen``, ``tests/sdfg``, ``tests/npbench`` shows 0 code
regressions.
Replaces the candidate-level refuse guard added in 327d48c with the
SDFG-level fix: when ``SubgraphFusion.apply`` is about to materialise an
outer-sink AccessNode for a non-compressible intermediate ``X`` of data
``D``, and the state already contains another AccessNode of ``D``
reachable from the new ``global_map_exit`` via the candidate's interior
consumer chain that writes the same propagated outer subset, ``X``'s
outer store is dead -- the downstream chain overwrites it. Drop the
outer store rather than create a parallel sibling write that the fused
MapExit cannot order.

The propagated outer subset is derived via ``propagate_subset`` so the
comparison happens in the post-MapExit symbol frame (``[0:I, 0:J, k]``)
rather than the inner-iterator frame (``[__i0, __i1, k]``).

A direct ``MapExit -> AccessNode`` child of data ``D`` is treated as a
parallel peer (not a dominator); the dominator must sit past at least
one downstream consumer node. This avoids over-blocking the legitimate
two-intermediate consolidation that ``apply`` itself performs (see
``test_single_data_multiple_intermediate_accesses``).

``InsertExplicitCopies`` reverts to its original unconditional stage-out
lift -- the stage-out guard at 0d5bca1 was a workaround for the same
WAW, no longer needed now that the fusion pass eliminates the dead write
at the source.

Coverage:
- ``tests/npbench/weather_stencils/vadv_test.py`` cpu/gpu/autodiff:
  3/3 pass under both legacy and experimental codegen
- ``tests/transformations/subgraph_fusion`` full suite: 48/48 (incl.
  invariant_dim, disjoint, intermediate_mimo previously
  affected by the candidate-level guard)
- Cumulative: 1,472 tests across copy_node, subgraph_fusion,
  weather_stencils, polybench, codegen, sdfg, libraries, transformations,
  npbench under experimental codegen; 0 regressions
The previous form bundled the ``arglist`` API check with an optional
``sdfg.compile()`` gated on a cupy import. Split into:

- ``test_argument_signature_test``: CPU-only ``arglist`` assertion that
  the indirect ``A`` / ``D`` references are reported as kernel arguments.
- ``test_argument_signature_compiles_and_runs``: ``@pytest.mark.gpu``
  end-to-end build + run that exercises the kernel-signature path the
  ``arglist`` fix at ``075052309`` repaired (the bug surfaced as
  ``identifier "D" is undefined`` at ``nvcc``).

The shared SDFG-construction code is factored into
``_make_indirect_reference_sdfg`` so both tests use the same fixture.
…esolved subset

The previous lift cloned the inner edge's Memlet onto the new outer-side
edge (``MapEntry -> libnode`` for stage-in, ``libnode -> MapExit`` for
stage-out). When the inner edge's Memlet was named dst-relative
(``data == inner_node.data`` with the outer-side subset in
``other_subset``), the cloned Memlet carried the wrong ``data`` field and
SDFG validation rejected the lifted edge with
``Memlet data does not match source or destination data nodes``.

Construct the outer-side Memlet explicitly: query
``get_src_subset`` / ``get_dst_subset`` to resolve the subset in the
outer array's index space, then build ``Memlet(data=outer.data,
subset=...)`` -- propagating ``dynamic`` and ``wcr`` from the original.
The inner-side subset is derived from the resolved outer subset rather
than from ``outer_memlet.subset`` (which may be inner-relative).

Test: ``tests/codegen/argument_signature_test.py::test_argument_signature_compiles_and_runs``
constructs exactly this dst-relative pattern (``A -> MapEntry/OUT_A ->
tmp_in`` with ``Memlet(data='tmp_in', subset=0, other_subset=__i1)``)
and now passes under both legacy and experimental codegens.
``tests/passes/insert_explicit_copies_test.py``: 51/51 (experimental),
53/53 (legacy) -- no regressions.
No functional change. Trim the DSE explanation in
``SubgraphFusion.apply`` and the dst-relative-Memlet note in
``InsertExplicitCopies._lift_staging_edge`` to single-paragraph
form, matching the comment density in ``copy_node.py``.
… ``defined_vars`` at SDFG scope

The framecode splits DECLARE (at SDFG scope) from ALLOCATE/DEALLOCATE
(at first/last producing states) for transients whose shape depends on
non-free symbols and which are used across multiple states. The
experimental CUDA backend's ``_declare_pointer_if_needed`` only
registered the host pointer in ``defined_vars`` when the C declaration
was emitted -- so when ALLOCATE ran for a transient whose declaration
``declare_array`` had already written at SDFG scope, the host pointer
was never registered. Even in cases where it was registered, the entry
landed in the producing state's scope (which is popped when that state
exits), so the consuming state's kernel-scope variable definition
(``_define_variables_in_kernel_scope``) failed with
``KeyError: 'Variable X has not been defined'``.

Fix ``_declare_pointer_if_needed`` to always register the host pointer
in ``defined_vars`` (independent of whether the C declaration was
emitted) and place the binding at the parent (SDFG) scope via
``ancestor=1``. The state scope dies when the producing state exits,
but the binding must outlive that to be visible to the consuming
state's kernel codegen.

Reproducer ``experimental_cuda_split_alloc_test.py`` hand-builds the
minimal SDFG -- a Scope-lifetime GPU transient shaped on a LoopRegion
loop variable, accessed in two states inside the same LoopRegion --
that triggers the framecode's split codegen path without depending on
any frontend or transformation pass.
Previous CI run hit ``QOSMaxSubmitJobPerUserLimit`` on daint and
exited without scheduling. Trivial whitespace-equivalent docstring tweak
to nudge a fresh pipeline.
… scope kind

Follow-up to 4a839fe. That commit hard-coded ``ancestor=1`` to push
the host pointer above the producing state scope so the binding would
survive state boundaries for split-DECLARE/ALLOCATE Scope-lifetime
transients (mandelbrot2 / split_scope_lifetime_transient). But
``ancestor=1`` lands one level too high when ``_declare_pointer_if_needed``
runs inside a nested SDFG's codegen: the nested SDFG frame has
``can_access_parent=False``, so a binding placed in the outer SDFGState
scope is unreachable from inside the nested SDFG -- breaks
``tests/cuda_smem_test.py``, the GPU localstorage variant, and all
``cuSPARSE`` library tests with ``KeyError: 'Variable gpu_X has not
been defined'``.

Pick the ancestor from the topmost scope's kind: SDFGState -> 1
(enclosing SDFG frame), otherwise (SDFG, nested SDFG codegen) -> 0
(current frame). Both regressions and the original split-alloc fix
now pass.
…loc repro

The detailed before/after rationale belongs in commit history, not the
source. Keep one short paragraph naming the failure mode and the scope
choice, drop the bullet-list re-explanation in the test docstring/
comments.
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