On Mar 28, 2012, at 12:22 PM, David Anderson wrote:
> NvAPI looks promising.
> The official doc is here:
> http://developer.nvidia.com/nvapi
> 
> However - inexplicably - it seems to exist only for Windows.
> Anyway, I'll investigate using NvAPI after 7.0 is out.

Remember also that on the Mac, OpenCL is built in but CUDA is available only if 
the user has specifically installed it.  This means that Macs can run OpenCL 
tasks on NVIDIA GPUs even when CUDA has not been installed, so we can't depend 
on any CUDA APIs to determine GPU capabilities.

Cheers,
--Charlie

> On 28-Mar-2012 6:34 AM, Richard Haselgrove wrote:
>> I see you've updated the cores_per_proc to 192 - sorry about that.
>> 
>> Regarding the API - my attention has been drawn to
>> https://code.oregonstate.edu/svn/gamercise/Project/StereoBranch/Depends/include/nvapi.h
>> 
>> which includes - a long way down - a declaration for
>> NvAPI_GPU_GetGpuCoreCount
>> 
>> I'm a bit worried about "no NVIDIA GPU *driving a display* was found", in
>> case it rules out Tesla. We've identified a tester with access to a tesla:
>> although workplace policies prevent him running SETI on it, we're hoping
>> he'll be able to run some test software with the NvAPI code.
>> 
>> With regard to NvAPI_GPU_GetAllClockFrequencies, I'm hearing on the grapevine
>> that the CUDA 4.2 SDK is now available to registered developers with a valid
>> NDA. Unfortunately, the developers in question are too busy with their own
>> code to post here (even those coding science apps for the BOINC platform),
>> and because I haven't got my own NDA (I'm not a developer at that level),
>> they can't tell me what they're reading. But you might be able to find
>> something there that Google can't.
>> 
>> I'll cross-post this to the boinc_projects list, in the hope that a project
>> developer can get you up to speed (pun intended) on the Kepler before Rom
>> tags and builds for v7.0.24

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