NIVIDIA Tesla M1060 and Geforce GTX 970 in same PC

[monaghanrl]

Hi there,
I currently have a NVIDIA Geforce GTX 970 card, in my windows 7 64-bit machine, which I use as my primary display card.

I also have a NVIDIA Tesla C1060 card which I wish to install along side the Geforce card. Currently I cannot get the two to coexist peacefully within the same machine due to the driver conflict.

I realise that there is no unified driver for a tesla + geforce combination and that NVIDIA only really seem to provide drivers for a Tesla + Quadro setup. However, I do not wish the Tesla card to provide any graphical performance boost or to provide help to rendering etc. I have a specific CUDA compiled application that I wish to run on the Tesla card (compeltely separate from the geforce card) and so I just want it to sit and crunch data on it's own. I have heard of 'compute only' drivers being available for tesla cards but I cannot find any solid information about them.

Has anyone had any expereince of getting Tesla and geforce cards to work within the same system? If so, any advice would be very welcome.

Many Thanks
Rob

 

[i7Baby]

Tesla is dead. Long live Quadro!

 

[i7Baby]

How many cuda cores in each. Just use the one with more cuda cores.

 

[monaghanrl]

How many cuda cores in each. Just use the one with more cuda cores.

I currently use the Geforce card to compute as it is clearly more powerful than the C1060 card. However, I want to install the C1060 card so that both can be put to computing. They do not have to compute together as I can run seperate instances of the CUDA application on both.

 

[i7Baby]

You can't use them both at once. You can only SLI cards with the same GPU. I'd just go with the 970.

 

[Someone Somewhere]

Solution removed at OP's request.

You don't need to SLI them for compute purposes.

 

[monaghanrl]

Solution removed at OP's request.

You don't need to SLI them for compute purposes.

This is absoulutely correct. I do not wish to SLI the cards or have them compute cooperatively. I just want the cards and their respective drivers to coexist in the same machine, such that I can use the GTX 970 for main display and computing through CUDA, and use the Tesla card to compute through CUDA only (on a seperate instance to the GTX 970 Card).

 

[i7Baby]

The 970 would be better than the Tesla card for cuda work anyway. Just use it and see how you get along.

Otherwise, you'll have to keep switching between cards.