Well, I am the SysAdmin. I do generally try to avoid non-certified drivers for things as specialized as GPUs, but there should be no problem waiting until next week.
Thanks, Lloyd On 04/01/2016 09:02 AM, Andy Bauer wrote: > > Hi Lloyd, > > > Based on feedback from NVIDIA regarding the driver: they suggest you > wait until mid next week, some things will change significantly. > > It _looks_ like the 361 version should become a Tesla driver. NVIDIA > does a significant amount of testing on the Tesla drivers so their > release cycle isn't quite as often as their regular GPU cards. I think > it was the 358.16 drivers that I've tried on the K40P cards and didn't > have any issues but I don't know how your sys-admins feel about > installing drivers which aren't officially supported on the K80s. If > you don't use them, you'll then want 361.33 or newer driver. > > > Best, > > Andy > > > On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 10:21 AM, Lloyd Brown <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > On 03/31/2016 09:10 PM, Andy Bauer wrote: > > I'll highlight the fact though that you'll need to update your NVIDIA > > drivers to at least 355.11. The dashboard that's testing > ParaView with > > EGL is running 358.13. > > When I go to nvidia.com <http://nvidia.com>, and search for Linux > drivers for the k80, it's > showing me v352.79. Are these other versions testing/beta releases or > something? > > > > -- > Lloyd Brown > Systems Administrator > Fulton Supercomputing Lab > Brigham Young University > http://marylou.byu.edu > > -- Lloyd Brown Systems Administrator Fulton Supercomputing Lab Brigham Young University http://marylou.byu.edu
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