Re: question about CUDA
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg115673] Re: question about CUDA
- From: Patrick Scheibe <pscheibe at trm.uni-leipzig.de>
- Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 05:48:32 -0500 (EST)
Hi, no, this is not true. You can use CUDA enabled cards for computations even if this is the only card in the system. It should be clear, that then some resources of your graphics card may be used by other applications currently running. Another thing is that your CUDA program may use too much memory or has too many bugs and crashes your system.. this is the point where a second card become handy. For now, leave it like that and start playing with CUDA. The specification of your card here http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_geforce_8800_gt_us.html shows that you have 112 CUDA Cores and 512 MB Ram, which is fine to see the magic. Cheers Patrick On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 05:36 -0500, Ivan Smirnov wrote: > Hello. > I'm planning to start using CUDA. > If I have 8800GT card (it supports CUDA), can I start use CUDA computations > in Mathematica 8 with just this card or I need install one more card in that > PC? (I heard that one man said that supposedly there are needed 2 or more > cards as CUDA are parallel computations - is it true?). > > Ivan Smirnov > >