Incomplete particle extraction

Particle Picking
#1

Hi,

I recently encountered a problem during particle extraction from micrographs. Here is the screenshot showing the error message.

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I feel this error is related to GPU out of memory, because I noticed that the used GPU memory was about 5 GB when the job was initially launched and gradually increased as the job ran. Eventually, as one or more of the GPUs ran out of memory, I started to see the error messages. Using the CPU version of the job, particle extraction successfully completed for all the micrographs without any issue. And the system memory usage stayed about the same through the whole process of the job. It seems like the GPU version of the particle extraction job was unable to release the GPU memory after it finished extraction from previous batches of micrographs. Below is some information about my system:

CPU: AMD Threadripper Pro 5975WX, 32 Core
Memory: 256 GB
GPUs: 4x NVIDIA RTX A5500, each with 24 GB of VRAM
CryoSPARC 4.1.1

I don’t know if this issue is dependent on the version of cryoSPARC. Although I never encountered this problem before while using cryoSPARC v2 and v3, the datasets I worked with before were also much smaller than this one (~2000 movies before vs 6453 movies here). So it was possible that in previous cases, particle extraction completed before the GPU ran out of memory.

Please let me know if you have any suggestions or ways to fix this problem.

Thanks.

cufftAllocFailed during particle extraction (v4.1.1)
#2

I also sometimes have this issue.
But normally, the incomplete micrographs should go in a different output “Micrographs incomplete”.
What I do is that I just rerun the job on the incomplete micrographs and pool the extracted particles from both jobs afterwards.

#3

We’re seeing the same problem. Yet for us it’s only happening on one of two identical (and brand new) 4xGPU processing servers (they use A5000 24GB). So I’m wondering if this relates to CryoSPARC installations, OS, or hardware being different in ways that have been hidden so far.

#4

@drichman @Flow @YYang You may be encountering an issue that has been fixed with patch 230110.

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#5

Thanks @wtempel that was it! Patch 230110 fixed it.