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Re: [Condor-users] Condor with CUDA on windows



Maybe it's worth investigating rCUDA.?.?

In general, we really to start treating GPU as a 1st class citizen, maybe target for next series?

Cheers,
Tim

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ziliang Guo" <ziliang@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Todd Tannenbaum" <tannenba@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "Condor-Users Mail List" <condor-users@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2012 12:53:15 PM
> Subject: Re: [Condor-users] Condor with CUDA on windows
>
> None of my preliminary attempts worked.  This included running the
> service under my user account and trying that trick with allow
> interaction with user desktop.
>
> I dug some more and the only "solution" out there is one Nvidia
> provided for their Tesla card drivers:
>
> http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?s=2cd29b11a0be8fa2e10b06aacd57beda&showtopic=93450&st=20
>
> People apparently have had success tricking the drivers to work with
> non-Tesla cards, but at this point it seems a crapshoot.  The only
> "solution" unless Microsoft or Nvidia and AMD work out a way to
> provide access to GPUs in session 0 is for Condor to start up the
> process inside a non-session 0 session, at which point we need to
> test
> to make sure the starter can communicate correctly with the startd or
> the starter can actually keep track of the running process, etc, etc.
> We MIGHT be able to tweak the use visible desktop code to do this.
>
> Z
>
> On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 4:31 PM, Todd Tannenbaum
> <tannenba@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 1/13/2012 4:04 PM, Ziliang Guo wrote:
> >>
> >> Another user sent a similar question and I responded here:
> >> https://lists.cs.wisc.edu/archive/condor-users/2012-January/msg00038.shtml
> >>
> >> Simplistically, due to the changed security model in Vista and
> >> higher,
> >> access to the video card is severely restricted in the session 0
> >> that
> >> Condor and jobs run in.  Currently the only way to run a CUDA or
> >> any
> >> job that requires a GPU on Windows using Condor is to run Condor
> >> as a
> >> personal Condor.  This however requires that a user be logged into
> >> the
> >> machine to start up and keep Condor running.  You also lose the
> >> sandboxing from the user that Condor does when running as a
> >> service.
> >>
> >
> > So even running Condor as a regular user under the service control
> > manager
> > is not enough to allow access to the video card on Vista and
> > higher?  Is
> > there perhaps some Windows registry setting on some such to relax
> > this
> > restriction?
> >
> > Sorry I only have questions instead of answers...
> >
> > Todd
>
>
>
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