Is it possible to chose between two CUDA devices?

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tgtcat6

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Message 31498 - Posted: 9 Mar 2010, 20:50:03 UTC
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I have two video cards in my computer...one has enough memory to function as a CUDA device, the other does not. Boinc sees them both, but for some reason, chooses to use the smaller one, which then errors out with "your nvidia gpu has insufficient memory..."

Here's the desc. of both

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Profile Gundolf Jahn

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Message 31499 - Posted: 9 Mar 2010, 21:09:02 UTC - in response to Message 31498.  


Is it possible to chose between two CUDA devices?

Yes, it is. You'll have to set up / edit cc_config.xml in your BOINC data directory to contain an <ignore_cuda_dev> option with the correct device number. That would be 1, regarding your picture.

I'm not sure if an additional <use_all_gpus> is necessary.

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Richard Haselgrove
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Message 31500 - Posted: 9 Mar 2010, 21:17:26 UTC

Interesting to see that BOINC has chosen the nForce 750a as the 'better' device, when the only thing it has going for it is the compute capability 1.1

Memory is, as tgtcat6 has found, too small, and as for speed....
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