Abort execution if gpu CC less than 3. In auto configuration disallow those gpus

Source/CNTK/CNTK.cpp

@@ -117,6 +117,11 @@ size_t GetMaxEpochs(const ConfigParameters& configParams)
     return maxEpochs;
 }
 
+void checkSupportForGpu(DEVICEID_TYPE deviceId)
+{
+    if(!gpuSupported(deviceId)) InvalidArgument("CNTK: GPU device %d has compute capability less than 3.0", deviceId);
+}
+
 // special temporary function to guard against a now invalid usage of "truncated" which exists in some IPG production setups
 static void DisableLegacyTruncationSettings(const ConfigParameters& TopLevelConfig, const ConfigParameters& commandConfig)
 {
@@ -484,6 +489,16 @@ int wmainWithBS(int argc, wchar_t* argv[]) // called from wmain which is a wrapp
     let valp = BS::Evaluate(expr);                                // evaluate parse into a dictionary
     let& config = valp.AsRef<ScriptableObjects::IConfigRecord>(); // this is the dictionary
 
+    auto valpp = config.Find(L"deviceId");
+    if (valpp)
+    {
+        auto valp = *valpp;
+        if (!valp.Is<ScriptableObjects::String>()) // If it's not string 'auto' or 'cpu', then it's a gpu
+        {
+            checkSupportForGpu(valp);
+        }
+    }
+
     // legacy parameters that have changed spelling
     if (config.Find(L"DoneFile")) // variables follow camel case (start with lower-case letters)
         InvalidArgument("Legacy spelling of 'DoneFile' no longer allowed. Use 'doneFile'.");
@@ -582,6 +597,13 @@ int wmainOldCNTKConfig(int argc, wchar_t* argv[])
 {
     ConfigParameters config;
     std::string rawConfigString = ConfigParameters::ParseCommandLine(argc, argv, config);    // get the command param set they want
+
+    DEVICEID_TYPE deviceId = config("deviceId");
+    if (deviceId >= 0)
+    {
+        checkSupportForGpu(deviceId);
+    }
+
     bool timestamping = config(L"timestamping", false);
     if (timestamping)
     {

Source/Common/BestGpu.cpp

@@ -107,6 +107,7 @@ public:
     void Init();
     void SetAllowedDevices(const std::vector<int>& devices); // only allow certain GPUs
     bool DeviceAllowed(int device);
+    void DisallowUnsupportedDevices();
     void DisallowDevice(int device)
     {
         assert((device >= -1) && (device <= 31));
@@ -158,6 +159,8 @@ static DEVICEID_TYPE SelectDevice(DEVICEID_TYPE deviceId, bool bLockGPU, const i
                 {
                     g_bestGpu->DisallowDevice(excludedDevices[i]);
                 }
+
+                g_bestGpu->DisallowUnsupportedDevices();
             }
 
             bestDeviceId = (DEVICEID_TYPE)g_bestGpu->GetDevice(BestGpuFlags(bLockGPU ? (bestGpuAvoidSharing | bestGpuExclusiveLock) : bestGpuAvoidSharing));
@@ -529,6 +532,33 @@ std::vector<int> BestGpu::GetDevices(int number, BestGpuFlags p_bestFlags)
     return best; // return the array of the best GPUs
 }
 
+void BestGpu::DisallowUnsupportedDevices()
+{
+    for (ProcessorData* pd : m_procData)
+    {
+        if (pd->deviceProp.major < 3)
+        {
+            DisallowDevice(pd->deviceId); //We don't support GPUs with Compute Capability < 3.0
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+bool gpuSupported(DEVICEID_TYPE deviceId){
+    auto bestGpu = make_unique<BestGpu>();
+
+    std::vector<ProcessorData*> processorData = bestGpu->GetProcessorData();
+
+    for (ProcessorData* pd : processorData)
+    {
+        if (pd->deviceId == deviceId)
+        {
+            return pd->deviceProp.major >= 3; //We support GPUs with Compute Capability >= 3.0
+        }
+    }
+
+    return false;
+}
+
 std::vector<GpuData> GetGpusData()
 {
     std::vector<GpuData> data;
@@ -536,8 +566,7 @@ std::vector<GpuData> GetGpusData()
     auto bestGpu = make_unique<BestGpu>();
 
     std::vector<ProcessorData*> processorData = bestGpu->GetProcessorData();
-    if (!processorData.empty())
-    {
+    
     for (ProcessorData* pd : processorData)
     {
         GpuData gpuData;
@@ -551,7 +580,6 @@ std::vector<GpuData> GetGpusData()
         gpuData.m_totalMemory = pd->deviceProp.totalGlobalMem/(1024*1024); //From bytes to MBytes
         data.push_back(gpuData);
     }
-    }
 
     return data;
 }

Source/Common/Include/BestGpu.h

@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ struct GpuData
 };
 
 std::vector<GpuData> GetGpusData();
+bool gpuSupported(DEVICEID_TYPE deviceId);
 
 class ConfigParameters;
 DEVICEID_TYPE DeviceFromConfig(const ConfigParameters& config);