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Re: running Nvidia and Intel graphic cards in parallel

 

I've tried this before and CUDA gives me the "cannot find device" error,
even when both cards are visible to lspci.

2010/1/15 André Bergner <andre.bergner.0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> Hi everybody,
>
> I'm wondering if it is possible to run both graphic cards in parallel. In
> particular I'm imaging using the intel card for graphics
> and the Geforce for general parallel computation ( using CUDA or OpenCL ).
> I still didn't install the Nvidia drivers using Janitor script,
> since I don't wont to break my system on accident, if something goes wrong.
> I'm still having my Vaio in standard mode (i.e. running intel and Geforce
> is visible in lspci). From my understanding it should be possible
> to leave the x-system unchanged and somehow use the Geforce for computation
> only.
> Does anybody know how that could be accomplished, especially how to install
> the drivers without touching the x-system?
> And, is this possible or is there something that might prevent that?
>
> regards,
> André
>
>
>
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