Re: [Condor-users] GPU support on windows?

[Ziliang Guo <ziliang@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I spoke to another developer and his recommendation is that the only
way to achieve this right now with Condor is to run a personal Condor
on Windows.  The downsides of course are you need a user logged on in
order for Condor to start and run, and you lose the sandboxing that
happens when Condor is run as a service.  Whether this solution is
appropriate for the environment your respective machines are in is a
separate matter.

Z

On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 2:31 PM, Stephen McGough
<stephen.mcgough@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Ziliang,
>
> Could I add a +1 to GPU under Windows. We tried to do this last year and
> came to the conclusion it wasn't going to work without changes to Condor.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Steve..
>
> On 12/01/2012 19:52, "Ziliang Guo" <ziliang@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>Looking at the code currently, we do not provide a mechanism to attach
>>to a window station not associated with session 0.  As such, there is
>>not a way within Condor that I'm aware of that lets you get around the
>>limited access that Vista and higher has imposed.  This is likely a
>>problem I'll work on when/if supporting GPU jobs on Windows becomes a
>>priority.  Right now most people doing GPU jobs have been doing it on
>>Linux so there hasn't been that much demand.
>>
>>Z
>>
>>On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 9:01 AM, Henri Astre <henri.astre@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> First of all I'm new to condor so I'm sorry about the newbie question.
>>> I'd like to launch jobs that needs GPU support on windows (OpenGL only
>>>for
>>> now, not Cuda).
>>>
>>> I've seen some post about GPU support in condor but none of them seems
>>>to be
>>> working on windows?
>>> - RFC: Adding GPUs into Condor[1]
>>> - GPU and condor?[2]
>>>
>>> My big concern is that it seems that condor is launching process on the
>>> session 0 which only have limited GPU support (due to new security
>>>changes
>>> since windows vista).
>>> ->It's not possible to create a valid OpenGL context from this session,
>>>you
>>> need to launch your process from another session.
>>> I've found this post[3] about lauching process in another
>>>session/window but
>>> there is nothing available?
>>>
>>> Is GPU support only available for linux?
>>> If not, do you have some hint on how to setup a working solution?
>>> (I'm launching programs from bat script using the vanilla universe and
>>>the
>>> stable version 7.6.5)
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance.
>>>
>>> Henri
>>>
>>> [1]:
>>> https://lists.cs.wisc.edu/archive/condor-users/2011-March/msg00121.shtml
>>> [2]:
>>>
>>>https://lists.cs.wisc.edu/archive/condor-users/2010-January/msg00058.shtm
>>>l
>>> [3]:
>>>
>>>https://www-auth.cs.wisc.edu/lists/condor-users/2011-September/msg00127.s
>>>html
>>>
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