nVidia Tesla M2050 (CUDA 201) able to do anything?
25 Mar 2024 19:19:38 UTC
Topic 230924
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Recently, my computer has stopped being able to download CUDA tasks due to the CUDA compute capability requirement.
Will there be any tasks that can use my cards, or do I need to find something else for them to do?
I'm running a Tesla M2050 and now see this in the logs:
CUDA compute capability required min: 300, supplied: 201
it's too old for just about
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it's too old for just about anything these days.
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tgbauer wrote: Recently, my
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I would try Asteroids or even MooWrapper as they are long term projects which can run on older gpu's.
mikey wrote:I would try
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Asteroids requires CC 5.0, so it won't run on a CC 2.0 card, but Moo! Wrapper should do, it runs fine on my GTX 275 with CC 1.3 and I think, that it should run on pretty much any CUDA capable card.
(It runs even on old, not OpenCL capable ATI cards with ATI-CAL support like HD 2000/3000 series (R6xx chips) in case someone is interested).
Than eventually PrimeGrid's GFN applications should run, as they only require OpenCL 1.1, which the M2050 has.
That's all AFAIK, unfortunately the BRP4 1.33 CUDA app, still "available" on Albert has been removed from here many years ago, it would have been perfect for our older cards.
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Thanks for the tip, will give
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Thanks for the tip, will give Moo! Wrapper and PrimeGrid a try
PrimeGrid is working as
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PrimeGrid is working as expected using Coda on Tesla M2050 and glad to see it getting some use
Will leave Einstein@Home enabled, and will automatically crunch for it once it supports my GPU again
tgbauer wrote: Will leave
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That is unlikely to happen. Apps tend to only get created for current or future hardware. It becomes too difficult to compile 50 different variations for ten year old hardware from 5 generations ago.
Do you need that card for
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Do you need that card for some job? You could get, for example, a GTX 1060 with several times the horsepower and half the electricity use for less than $100 used. A newer card would eventually pay for itself in savings.