[Bf-committers] Cuda 5.5 Release Candidate available

2013-06-03 Thread Jürgen Herrmann
Hi there,

I just saw that NVidia has released the Cuda 5.5 RC for registered Cuda devs.
It supports VS 2012 now...
So I can begin testing with cuda binaries compiled with VS2012 without having 
to cheat ;)

/Jürgen
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Re: [Bf-committers] Cuda 5.5 Release Candidate available

2013-06-03 Thread Thomas Dinges
Hi,
I tested the 5.5 Toolkit already, and unfortunately it still gives a big 
slowdown for Cycles rendering. So updating to 5.5 is not a solution for 
our official releases. :(

Thomas

Am 03.06.2013 10:54, schrieb Jürgen Herrmann:
 Hi there,

 I just saw that NVidia has released the Cuda 5.5 RC for registered Cuda devs.
 It supports VS 2012 now...
 So I can begin testing with cuda binaries compiled with VS2012 without having 
 to cheat ;)

 /Jürgen
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Re: [Bf-committers] Cuda 5.5 Release Candidate available

2013-06-03 Thread Jürgen Herrmann
Hmm, unfortunately it's the only clean solution for vs 2012 :(
The other solution is to trick nvcc by either using the vc9 platform toolkit to 
compile cycles cuda kernel or to manually edit some files to force compilation 
with vs 2012.
Both gave me random crashes I could not reproduce with 100% reliability.

/Jürgen

Am 03.06.2013 um 11:12 schrieb Thomas Dinges blen...@dingto.org:

 Hi,
 I tested the 5.5 Toolkit already, and unfortunately it still gives a big 
 slowdown for Cycles rendering. So updating to 5.5 is not a solution for 
 our official releases. :(
 
 Thomas
 
 Am 03.06.2013 10:54, schrieb Jürgen Herrmann:
 Hi there,
 
 I just saw that NVidia has released the Cuda 5.5 RC for registered Cuda devs.
 It supports VS 2012 now...
 So I can begin testing with cuda binaries compiled with VS2012 without 
 having to cheat ;)
 
 /Jürgen
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Re: [Bf-committers] Cuda 5.5 Release Candidate available

2013-06-03 Thread Jürgen Herrmann
I just had a look on the nvcc compiler options we use to compile cuda binaries.
First of all we still use --opencc-options that are ignored by nvcc 5.0 and 5.5 
when compiling for sm_20 and up.
Maybe we should see if there are nvcc optimization options we can use to regain 
speed when using Cuda 5.0+.

/Jürgen

Am 03. Juni 2013 um 11:39 schrieb Jürgen Herrmann shadow...@me.com:

 Hmm, unfortunately it's the only clean solution for vs 2012 :(
 The other solution is to trick nvcc by either using the vc9 platform toolkit 
 to compile cycles cuda kernel or to manually edit some files to force 
 compilation with vs 2012.
 Both gave me random crashes I could not reproduce with 100% reliability.

 /Jürgen

 Am 03.06.2013 um 11:12 schrieb Thomas Dinges blen...@dingto.org:

  Hi,
  I tested the 5.5 Toolkit already, and unfortunately it still gives a big
  slowdown for Cycles rendering. So updating to 5.5 is not a solution for
  our official releases. :(
 
  Thomas
 
  Am 03.06.2013 10:54, schrieb Jürgen Herrmann:
  Hi there,
 
  I just saw that NVidia has released the Cuda 5.5 RC for registered Cuda 
  devs.
  It supports VS 2012 now...
  So I can begin testing with cuda binaries compiled with VS2012 without 
  having to cheat ;)
 
  /Jürgen
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