Re: question about CUDA
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- Subject: [mg115675] Re: question about CUDA
- From: Ivan Smirnov <ivan.e.smirnov at gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 05:48:55 -0500 (EST)
Patrick, thanks for answer. I have such thoughts. Can you say, what additional code is needed to run Solve command in Mathematica 8 with CUDA? 2011/1/17 Patrick Scheibe <pscheibe at trm.uni-leipzig.de> > 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 > > > > > >