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leonarski_fandClaude Opus 5 1d16dcd2b9 Read a chunk without zeroing it first, and hold no frame the fused decoder never writes
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Three costs before and around the image loop.

Every image allocated a fresh buffer for its compressed chunk and resized it, which
value-initialises, and the read then overwrote every byte. At a few megabytes a chunk
the allocation is large enough to be mapped rather than reused, so the zeroing was
page-fault bound and cost more than the read it preceded - twenty gigabytes of it
over a long sweep. The buffer now uses an allocator that does not construct, and the
two HDF5 read paths are templated on the allocator so every existing caller compiles
unchanged. The rebind is deliberate: without it the vector base rebinds to the
default allocator and the zeroing quietly returns.

The bitshuffle decoder allocated a whole uncompressed frame in its constructor -
seventy megabytes a worker, five hundred and fifty across the loop - for the route
that decodes the shuffled image separately. That route is taken only when a
bitshuffle block is too large for the fused kernel, which neither writer this
pipeline reads produces, so on a real frame the buffer is allocated, never touched,
and freed. It is now allocated where it is used. The comment two lines below already
warned against sizing a buffer from the uncompressed size; the line above it had not
been given the same treatment.

The first call into cuFFT pays the library's one-time initialisation, and it landed
in the middle of the first pass with nothing to overlap it. It is now forced on a
background thread at startup, alongside the file open and the mapping build, in the
manner the shadow finder already uses.

Finally, the detector mask was copied into the start message whether or not a file
would carry it, which a merging run does not. It is filled where a writer is
constructed - both places one is constructed, the second being the fallback that
writes a process file when nothing indexed.

Faster on eleven of thirty-eight crystals and slower on none; the whole rotation test
set falls from four minutes thirty to four minutes seventeen, with each binary
repeating itself to within half a per cent. Space groups thirty-five of thirty-eight
and no failures throughout, and every column of the comparison table is identical.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01EGpGdgmJ8MyY9pCGWjktyi
2026-08-25 01:08:38 +02:00
jungfrauandClaude Opus 5 cf2336e523 Decode a compressed frame into shared memory and preprocess it there
The image loop on a 16 Mpx detector is two thirds of the run and both cards are busy for essentially
all of it, so card time removed is wall time removed. Of the six milliseconds a frame costs, two and
a half were spent decompressing it - and not because the card was short of bandwidth. The LZ4 pass
moved 53 GB/s where the strong-pixel flagger, reading the same image and the same bin table, gets
276. It is latency, not bandwidth: the copy loop moves 32 bytes per warp iteration with a syncwarp
after each one, and for a match copy the source and the destination both derive from the same
pointer, so nothing pipelines. The warp spends its time waiting for global memory, one dependent
round trip at a time.

So decode where the waiting is cheap. One CUDA block now owns one bitshuffle block: its first warp
decodes the payload into shared memory, and the whole block then un-transposes and preprocesses out
of shared and writes finished pixels. A shared round trip is tens of cycles rather than hundreds,
and the 72 MB shuffled intermediate never reaches DRAM at all - the pair of kernels moved about 238
MB a frame and the fused one moves 93.

The parser is lifted into a device function that both kernels call over the same bytes, so the
standalone path and the fused one cannot decode a chunk differently. The statistics reduction had to
change with it: 48 bytes of static shared on top of a full bitshuffle block costs a whole resident
block per multiprocessor, so the counts now reduce through a warp shuffle and one integer atomic per
warp. Blocks larger than 16 kB keep the two-kernel path, and the beam stop's own decoder is
untouched.

What this costs is decoder parallelism: a block that holds 16 kB of shared is one of four resident
per multiprocessor on this card, where the old kernel fitted thirty-two warps each decoding on its
own. The trade is favourable here and should be better on the production cards, which have half
again as much shared memory per multiprocessor. Measured on a 16 Mpx rotation set at the production
GPU count, with the indexing work of the next commit: 37.2 s -> 32.9 s, and the merged output is
byte-identical.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_011n8riB6X59oRjkrSHzNPAU
2026-08-23 14:03:40 -04:00
jungfrauandClaude Opus 5 20ef59205b Build the GPU engines a worker never uses on first use, not always
Every worker thread built a full set of analysis engines. Two of them are never
asked for on the offline path: the fixed-threshold spot finder, because
detection is adaptive by default, and the azimuthal integrator, because the
fused adaptive finder produces the profile as a by-product. They are still
needed elsewhere - the broker defaults to non-adaptive detection, and
--no-adaptive-spots asks for the finder - so they are built on first use rather
than removed. A lazily built finder takes the current resolution mask on
construction; without that it would find spots outside the limits it was never
told about.

The bitshuffle decoder sized its output buffer for the widest pixel type there
is rather than the one the images actually have, holding a second full frame per
worker on 16-bit data. It is sized from the image now and grows if a later frame
needs more.

The shared-table checksum runs over eight interleaved lanes. FNV's multiply is a
loop-carried dependency, so one chain retires a byte every few cycles whatever
memory bandwidth is spare, and every worker hashes tens of megabytes of geometry
tables as it builds its engines - about 5% of all CPU samples on a 16M-pixel
detector.

Measured on a 16M-pixel rotation dataset: cudaMalloc 11314 -> 9474 calls and,
with cudaFree, 117 s -> 78 s of aggregate thread time; both synchronise the
whole device, so that time is spent blocking every other worker. Whole battery
15m32s -> 12m30s.

Data quality against main, over 24 crystals and eight statistics each: the same
space group on all 24, and every difference smaller than what two runs of an
IDENTICAL binary produce (measured: 13 of 24 crystals reproduce exactly run to
run, worst R_meas swing 5.5 points, against 4.6 points for main vs this branch).
The float atomics in the reductions have always made this so.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-23 13:12:36 +02:00
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This is an UNSTABLE release. It includes many experimental features, as well as many AI generated fixes. We recommend using rc.152 for production use.

* **rugnux: significantly better quality of results, and faster.** A large rework of integration, scaling, merging, geometry refinement and space-group determination, together with measurements the program previously made no attempt at - the direct beam before indexing, the beam stop, the goniometer rotation scale, and the stretches of a sweep the crystal did not deliver. A rotation dataset typically gains observations at better <I/sigma> and R_meas, and every `mx` and `scale` run writes a `<prefix>_report.txt` results report modelled on XDS's `CORRECT.LP`. Many defaults moved with it: spot detection is self-calibrating, beam-stop detection and rotation geometry post-refinement are on, resolution limits default to as far as the detector reaches, and ice-ring handling engages only where the crystal is measured to have ice.
* **jfjoch_viewer:** the beam-stop shadow, the detector calibration and the beam-centre measurement are reachable from "Analyze dataset"; the settings panel reports how the sample moved and how polarized the beam was; image rendering and interaction are faster.
* **Performance:** bitshuffle+LZ4 images are decoded on the GPU rather than on the host, with the bitshuffle inverse fused into preprocessing so the decompressed frame is never held in device memory.
* **Broker, writer, packaging and build:** image-slot lifetime and locking fixes, per-image datasets sized by the images actually written, the Debian/Ubuntu broker package renamed to `jfjoch`, and `image_analysis` compiling under MSVC again.

**Breaking change to the rugnux command line:**
* `--azint-only` and `--scale` are **removed**, replaced by `--mode azint` and `--mode scale`; the full pipeline is `--mode mx` and remains the default. A script passing the old flags now fails with the list of valid modes rather than silently running the wrong one.
* `-t`/`--stride` is **refused on rotation data**: skipping frames cuts every reflection's rocking curve, so the combined fulls and their partiality would be measured over frames the sweep never recorded. Select a contiguous range with `-s`/`-e` instead. `--mode azint` and `--force-still` still take a stride.

**Breaking changes to OpenAPI** - regenerate the client (`jfjoch-client` 1.0.0-rc.161, `frontend/src/client`) or read the affected fields as optional:
* `image_scale_b` is removed from the `plot_type` enum, so a client requesting that plot now gets an error rather than a curve.
* `azim_int_settings.high_q_recipA`, `spot_finding_settings.high_resolution_limit` and `spot_finding_settings.low_resolution_limit` are no longer `required`. All three mean "no limit at that end" when unset and are omitted from the response instead of carrying a placeholder value, which raises in a client generated from an rc.160-or-earlier spec. A value of 0 is still accepted and means the same thing.

**Breaking changes to the stored formats** - a consumer reading these fields must treat them as optional:
* The per-image image-scale B factor is no longer computed, so `/entry/MX/imageScaleBFactor` is absent from newly written HDF5 files and the corresponding key is absent from the CBOR DataMessage and END blocks. Files written by rc.160 and earlier still contain it and still open; nothing in the pipeline reads it any more.
* `_reflns.jfjoch_diffrn_ISa` now carries the whole-range `1/sqrt(a*b)` that XDS's ISa denotes, and the error-model `a` and `b` are reported in XDS's convention; the strong-reflection asymptote moves to `_reflns.jfjoch_diffrn_ISa_asymptotic`. **A file written by an earlier version carries the asymptote under the plain `ISa` name.**

Reviewed-on: #71
Co-authored-by: Filip Leonarski <filip.leonarski@psi.ch>
2026-08-13 17:03:10 +02:00