Dnia 2010-09-28, wto o godzinie 23:46 -0400, Andreas Kloeckner pisze:
> On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 04:42:00 -0700 (PDT), jmcarval <jmcar...@fe.up.pt> wrote:
> > 
> > Hi.
> > Installed PyCUDA 0.94.1 in several Linux boxes.
> > All have Ubuntu 10.4 with CUDA 3.1 (drv 256.40) and python 2.6.5
> > 
> > Boxes with 1.1 capability GPUs like 8600GT, 9400 GT or FX850 are ok and some
> > user's are already trying them.
> > Boxes with 1.3 (GTX280) and 2.0 (GTX480) have dificulties just running the
> > supplied tests. On these:
> > 
> > test_cumath.py passes all tests but is 5 times slower in the GTX280 and
> > 40(!) times slower in the GTX480
> > As far as I can see, this test never uses float64
> 
> This might just be due to the G80/G92 compilers being faster than the
> 280/480 ones. In general, the tests are not meant for benchmarking. That
> said, I don't really observe slowdowns like that.
> 
> > test_gpuarray.py is 2 times slower in the GTX280 and fails the dot, sum,
> > minmax and subset_minmax tests on the GTX480.
> 
> I can't reproduce these issues on the Fermi devices (all C2050s on
> Linux) that I have access to, so I'm having a hard time tracking down
> this problem. Any help would be much appreciated.
> 
> As a hypothesis: Are there multiple versions of the Fermi silicon? Any
> way to detect which one you have?

GTX 470/480 have GF100 which provides computing capabilities 2.0
GTX 460 has GF104, which has computing capabilities 2.1 - including
48 (not 32 as in all previous chips) processors per MP.
I do not know anything about Tesla and other high-end hardware.

I am not sure how it is related though.



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