Questions tagged [graphics-processing-unit]

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What are actual Tesla M60 models used by AWS?

Wikipedia says that the Tesla M60 has 2x8 GB RAM (whatever it means) and TDP 225–300 W. I use an EC2 instance (g3s.xlarge) which is supposed to have a Tesla M60. But nvidia-smi command says it has 8GB ram and max power limit 150W: > sudo…
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How to run GPGPU Memory Testing

We use a lot of GPGPU computing (mostly with CUDA, but some OpenCL). Often when users are running code, the code errors out with a memory error on only one of our hosts. I suspect one of the cards is faulty. Sometimes it brings down the whole…
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Google Kubernetes Engine node pool does not autoscale from 0 nodes

I am trying to run a machine learning job on GKE, and need to use a GPU. I created a node pool with Tesla K80, as described in this walkthrough. I set the minimum node size to 0, and hoped that the autoscaler would automatically determine how many…
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Hyper-V PCIe Passthrough of GPU working (but not 100%)

I have managed to be able to passthrough a PCIe GPU (AMD RX580) into a Windows 10 Guest on a Windows Server 2016 Standard host. The problem is that whenever the GPU will be used this error throws up: The driver was installed through Windows…
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RemoteFX On NVIDIA Lower Cost Video Cards

I am looking into a Windows Server 2008 SP1 with RemoteFX enabled, however I do not want to buy one of the NVIDIA Quadro $1000+ video cards to do it (as only a small number of users will be using virtual machines). I would like to use one of the…
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HP z800 running Vista loses NVIDIA display settings after Windows Update

Not sure if this is a SuperUser question or not... I'm approaching from the administrator's perspective. One of my users is on an HP z800 workstation running a financial trading application. This system contains two nVidia adapters powering SIX 24"…
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Erase GPU memory

We have Nvidia GPU cards that can be used by different users in an OpenStack environment. A first user creates a VM with access to a GPU card, then deletes the VM when done. Another user then creates a VM which is given access to the same card.…
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Hypervisor support for vGPU + VM suspend?

Short version - how well do current hypervisors support vGPU with VM suspend/resume capability? Longer version: I've used VMware Workstation for many years in my home lab, with the GPU (used for graphics not compute) shared between VMs, and VMs…
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Windows 10, two monitors with two different sessions

I want to do some thing but I can't find anything about it. I remember that on Linux you can do a multisit workstation with one PC and several screens and perifericals (mouse, keyboard, etc), configuring X11 to serve different user sessions on…
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GPU support on OpenStack/CloudStack

I'm wondering if anyone here has had success with any of the cloud orchestration layers using a GPU (preferably vGPU)? I've been able to get XenServer 6.2 to successfully see our nvidia GRID K1 card but didn't know if any of the OpenStack/CloudStack…
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Сan I use IOMMU for VT-d to give each virtual machine one at a time GPU?

If I use VMWare with 4 virtual-machines and 4 GPUs (nVidia Quadro/Tesla), then can I give (move) some devices to different virtual-machines for each by a single card? If I have one of these CPU, then I have IOMMU:…
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Is having a [high-end] video card important on a server?

My application is quite interactive application with lots of colors and drag-and-drop functionality, but no fancy 3D-stuff or animations or video, so I only used plain GDI (no GDI Plus, No DirectX). In the past my applications ran in desktops or…
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ESXI PCIe GPU Passthrough does not allow for CUDA

I am trying to do cuda development in an ESXI environment, so I installed a Quadro 5800 in my ESXI machine (Dell T7500). I did passthrough to the Windows 7 VM that I will be doing development in, but when I run GPU-Z or a cuda program, CUDA is not…
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Supermicro X10 motherboard with discrete GPU and onboard IPMI GPU and access via KVM

Is it possible to have both GPUs running and connected to displays at the same time (with mirrored displays for example) but then also connect via the IPMI iKVM to the built in GPU? I will need access to a remote workstation with an X10 class…
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How important is the CPU when building a CUDA system?

I'm just a clueless sysadmin and we need to put together a couple of machines specifically for users to use CUDA. We're looking at the Dell PowerEdge T620 and jamming four CUDA cards into the sucker. Researching the CUDA components is another…
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