Re: [AMBER] GTX780 News

From: ET <sketchfoot.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 03:13:41 +0100

Thanks very much for the quick information guys! It's much appreciated.

I'm not that up on the manner in which these cards are programmed, so am a
little confused by your explanation Scott. could you please clarify it for
me?

br,
g


On 27 June 2013 01:47, Scott Le Grand <varelse2005.gmail.com> wrote:

> To clarify, there are 15 SMXs in a GK110 GPU. For GTX Titan, one of them
> is disabled. There are 15 (15 choose 1) ways to do this. All of them seem
> to be broken.
>
> There are 12 out of 15 active SMXs in GTX 780. That means there are 455 (15
> choose 3) ways to make one. I'm a little nervous that some of those
> configurations may be broken, so the best thing to do is to test if they
> exhibit deterministic behavior upon acquiring them, and if they don't, RMA
> them as defective.
>
>
>
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> On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 4:31 PM, Ross Walker <ross.rosswalker.co.uk>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Ok, good news on the GTX780 front. After 4 days of testing neither Scott
> > nor myself have been able to break the GTX780s. This is in a 4 x GTX780
> > Exxact system although at present we have only tested multiple single GPU
> > runs using all 4 GPUs at once - I.e. pmemd.cuda (NOT pmemd.cuda.MPI) - I
> > will be testing pmemd.cuda.MPI shortly but I don't see why this wouldn't
> > work given single GPU is working fine.
> >
> > Key though is that there are multiple ways to build GTX780s, and for now
> > we have only tested one specific model which is as follows:
> >
> > http://tinyurl.com/prxlwy6 Zotac GTX780 ZT-70201-10P
> >
> >
> > Until we have an opportunity to test different vendor GTX780s and OC
> > versions the advice is to stick with the above model if you can.
> >
> > All the best
> > Ross
> >
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