Mac / MPS Support

[mattdesl]

Has anyone managed to get this running on Mac in any device other than cpu? I would like to try and use mps device. For example using accelerate: https://github.com/huggingface/accelerate

Unfortunately when I try to use mps device and then re-run setup.py, any programs with mps will segfault. I'm on MBP M1 Max.

[SilverIce]

@mattdesl it's not that simple, (the source code is not purely python). It turns out it uses CUDA directly, for instance in the scene.cpp file.

[Upd] Agree, it should be possible to speedup PyTorch via mps.. I tried, but with this I got segfauls, bus errors etc:

 import torch

+MPS_OR_CPU_BACKEND= 'mps' if torch.backends.mps.is_available() else 'cpu'
+
 use_gpu = torch.cuda.is_available()
-device = torch.device('cuda') if use_gpu else torch.device('cpu')
+device = torch.device('cuda') if use_gpu else torch.device(MPS_OR_CPU_BACKEND)
+

 def set_use_gpu(v):
     global use_gpu
     global device
     use_gpu = v
     if not use_gpu:
-        device = torch.device('cpu')
+        device = torch.device(MPS_OR_CPU_BACKEND)

 def get_use_gpu():
     global use_gpu