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Old Cuda Cards on 1.5
Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2014 2:05 am
by cuda
I know the Quadro cards have been dropped, but will 1.5 run with the old Tesla 1060c's in some configuration?
Re: Old Cuda Cards on 1.5
Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2014 2:20 am
by abstrax
cuda wrote:I know the Quadro cards have been dropped, but will 1.5 run with the old Tesla 1060c's in some configuration?
As you can see
here, the Tesla C1060 has compute capability 1.3 which means it's unfortunately not supported in Octane 1.5.
Re: Old Cuda Cards on 1.5
Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2014 3:01 am
by ROUBAL
@abstrax :
Do you think that Compute capability 2.0 will be supported for a long time ? I ask because I am worried : currently I have two GTX 580 3GB and my old Workstation would not support more recent cards.
Re: Old Cuda Cards on 1.5
Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2014 3:36 am
by abstrax
ROUBAL wrote:@abstrax :
Do you think that Compute capability 2.0 will be supported for a long time ? I ask because I am worried : currently I have two GTX 580 3GB and my old Workstation would not support more recent cards.
Yes, I think it will be supported for quite some time. The differences between Fermi (2.x), Kepler (3.x) and Maxwell (5.x - when it will work) are not as big as the difference between Tesla (1.x) and Fermi. Fermi was really a big breakthrough in GPU computing.
The biggest problem with Tesla was that the CUDA toolkit uses a completely different compiler suite and that the compilation took more than 3 hours in the end (if it didn't crash before). We then found more and more compiler issues which we couldn't work around, because even a small change requires a full rebuild. Tesla also didn't allow some optimizations we made.
Re: Old Cuda Cards on 1.5
Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2014 5:21 am
by ROUBAL
Thanks. By the way, my workstation died just after my last post... Murphy's fault... I don't know yet if it is repairable.