Questions tagged [graphics-processing-unit]
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How does two gpus work?
I am current having a highend GPU installed in my server - and I am considering to install a cheap GPU to support the monitor.
Reason is that the server is using the highend GPU for OpenCL and i would like to reserve its resources for only…
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Using CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES with sge
Using sge with resource complex called 'gpu.q' that allows resource management of gpu devices (these are all nvidia devices). However on the systems there are multiple gpu devices (in exclusive mode) and if two jobs are allocated on the same node…
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Cloud Linux with OpenGL acceleration?
We are thinking about launching some Linux server-side services which would greatly benefit of having real accelerated OpenGL available. Currently we are running normal server instances with Mesa library and software rendering on CPUs. Works, albeit…
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Geforce 470 Card in Dell R710 or R5400 - Will it Blend?
Is it possible to install a NVIDIA Geforce card in a Dell R710 or R5400 Dual Xeon system? The server itself is certified only for Quadro systems.
I don't desire the added rendering or memory from the quadro, nor do I desire the steep price increase…
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Forcedeth - too many iterations (6) in > nv_nic_irq
I'm having trouble with an onboard nvidia gigabit network, under times of heavy load on the network, I'm seeing this error logged:
"too many iterations (6) in > nv_nic_irq"
I'm running Hadoop DFS over these NICs and I see checksum errors build up…
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Hot video card in server
Not sure if this belongs here or Superuser (I looked at Superuser -- suspect there are more hardware gurus here).
I have a server that sits in a cabinet. It's connected to a small screen that is normally off. However, the video card is running at…
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Double-precision floating point performance on GPUs
I have an application which needs to run lots of double-precision floating point operations in parallel on small datasets. I've just started exploring the possibility of running these computations on a GPU. While comparing performance metrics across…
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GKE can't schedule newly created pods that demand GPU on newly added nodes with GPUs
When adding new pool nodes with GPU Google Kubernetes Engine can't schedule newly created pods that demand GPU on these new nodes, should be automatic but not for GPU resources I guess, new pods stays in 'pending' state forever, how to fix…
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Does graphics card affect the server performance
I was wondering does graphics card actually improve the performance of the server or a dedicated cpu is already enough to do the job. If graphic cards capacity is needed how many does it required?
If for Nas Or for Webhosting Or dedicated software…
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Compatible AMD GPU for the Dell PowerEdge r710
I'm a complete noob when it comes to server virtualization and GPUs, so please bear with me.
Are there any decent AMD GPUs that are easily compatible with the Dell PowerEdge r710? I'm looking for something cheap that I can use for virtual machines…
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HP ProLiant DL380 G6 GPU installation
I have a Proliant DL380 G6 and I want to build a Graphics card into it. To be specific, it is a GTX 960 from Asus. The card When I now want to build it in, I am pretty shure I need a pcie slot riser, which one would you recommend? And also, can I…
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Poor man's virtual GPU, using a multiuser OS + GPU, instead of specialist vGPU card?
I've read about this system in a white paper somewhere, but can't remember where, or any details, and haven't found it since.
The comment was in regard to GPU virtualisation with Type 1 (bare metal) hypervisors. It noted that some system or other…
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PCI Express 2.0 x16 vs 3.0 x8
Will a PCI Express 2.0 x16 graphics card fit in a PCI Express 3.0 x8 slot, and if so, will it affect the performance? Theoretically I take it the two configurations should be equal with respect to bandwidth?
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Adding more GPU resources to AWS EC2 Ubuntu Server
I am running a g2.2xlarge AWS EC2 instance on Ubuntu Server 16.04 LTS (HVM), SSD Volume Type. The specs on this system are as follows (source):
The g2.2xlarge version comes with 15 GiB memory, 60 GB of local
storage, 26 EC2 Compute Units (that’s…
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Building a Machine Learning Server
We need to train large networks using TensorFlow that take several days to complete on a GPU. Amazon offers GPU instances like p2.16xlarge with e.g. 16 GPUs (NVIDIA K80). Now I was wondering if TensorFlow utilizes multiple GPUs efficiently or would…
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