[ale] Blender and GPU.... What to buy?

Boris Borisov bugyatl at gmail.com
Tue Jun 9 10:06:30 EDT 2015


Keep us updates on this problem. Sounds interesting ...

On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 10:28 PM, Michael Trausch <mike at trausch.us> wrote:

> I am more worried about the console system putting it in consideration as
> a virtual terminal. If no monitor is connected, will it ignore it, or will
> it assume a non compliant monitor and start up at a low resolution? Or will
> it be completely ignored for display by the firmware and kernel console?
>
> I do a lot of framebuffer (non-DRM/KMS for now) and so if the kernel
> ignores it, cool. If not it could be an issue if the system decides to try
> to use the device.
>
> Is it possible to tell the kernel "don't use this for display purposes, I
> just want it as a processor?"
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Jun 8, 2015, at 9:03 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> All of the Tesla cards are well usable as long as you load the nvidia
> binary drivers.
>
> You can get cuda cores from non-tesla cards as well. Several of the gamer
> class cards have many such cores with a decent amount of GRAM.
>
> You can have multiple graphics cards. The trick is to customize xorg.conf
> to only use the non nvidia.
>
>
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