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[Sidefx-houdini-list] open cl and quadro on h12
We are graphic card nut's over here doing a lot of projection mapping and
live shows and do crazy things like pipe out 8 hd streams off sli'd 580's
or 670's out of Touch and no one over here really likes the 6000's.
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 9:19 AM, Neil Scholes <neil at uvfilms.co.uk> wrote:
Thats interesting - i have a dual xeon Boxx also - and was
considering
upgrading the graphics to a quadro 6000 - possibly even the new 5000.
Neil Scholes
+44(0) 7977 456 197
www.uvfilms.co.uk
On 16 Aug 2012, at 16:51, Jordan Halsey wrote:
> I am curious about what tweaking can be done in Houdini to maximize the
> potential on the GPU as well.
>
> I have a quadro 6000 at work on dual Zeons and to tell the truth we are
> all disappointed with the cards and their performance. I have always felt
> like something is not quite right...the machines are made by Boxx and it
> just does not make much sense to me with the quality of all the hardware.
> We have tested it along side sli'd 580's and 670's in Touch Designer
and
> saw better performance on the lower end cards.
>
> Initially the machine had two Quadro 6000's sli'd
>
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 8:28 AM, Alvaro Castaneda <varomix at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
>> Hey Michael,
>> are there any differences when switching?, like the sim been different
>> cause is a different
>> code, I guess the question is, is there any noticeable difference?
>>
>> Cheers!!
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 9:26 AM, Michael O'Brien <mobrien at
pixar.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hola~
>>>
>>> That's in line with what we are seeing. We try to stay on the GPU for
>>> testing, but then go to the CPU for final tweaking.
>>>
>>> MO
>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: sidefx-houdini-list-bounces at sidefx.com [mailto:
>>> sidefx-houdini-list-
>>>> bounces at sidefx.com] On Behalf Of Nick van Zutphen
>>>> Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2012 2:34 AM
>>>> To: sidefx-houdini-list at sidefx.com
>>>> Subject: Re: [Sidefx-houdini-list] open cl and quadro on h12
>>>>
>>>> It depends, the computations on the gpu are limited to the VRAM on the
>>>> videocard. Compared to your CPU and ram that is quite a limitation.
>>>> On my machine the 580gtx 3gb is 30% faster than when I compute a
>> similar
>>>> sim on the CPU. How ever due to the VRAM limitation I can't go
beyond
>>>> about 256x256 voxels on the GPU.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Nick
>>>>
>>>> On 16 aug. 2012, at 10:44, zoran arizanovic <
>> zoran.arizanovic at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> hi
>>>>> i have a new dual xeon , 96 gb ram machine now built for sim work i
>>>>> just need to use it to its maximum and was wondering if this cl
would
>>>>> speed it up
>>>>>
>>>>> did anyone have any luck with running cl switch ?
>>>>> I have quadro 4000 would this be ok for cl?they say it has fermi
>> arch.
>>>>> but still when i switch it on i get error what version of drivers
are
>>>>> you using for this?
>>>>>
>>>>> i have a new dual xeon , 96 gb ram machine now built for sim work i
>>>>> just need to use it to its maximum and was wondering if this cl
would
>>>>> speed it up
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Zoran Arizanovic
>>>>> vfx reel : http://vimeo.com/28605448
>>>>> http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2902303/
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