On Jan 21, 2016, at 6:18 PM, Mohammed Ghadiyali <m7...@live.co.uk> wrote:
> I have few questions regarding CUDA support of Quantum ESPRESSO, as we are 
> planning to procure a server. And one of the configurations we are looking 
> into has dual Intel Xeon cpu's and four nvidia's graphic cards, similar to 
> this:
> http://www.thinkmate.com/system/gpx-xt4-2160v3-titan
> 
> 1. Does it support the consumer graphics cards like GTX 980ti or GTX TitanX 
> (as K40 and K80 basically cost like an arm and leg, we could buy four 
> consumer graphics cards for the price of one)?

No, QE-GPU is not designed to use gaming cards. you need a NVIDIA TESLA (K20, 
K40 or K80). The code will work on NVIDIA GTX TITAN but performance will be 
crap.


> 3. Or we should go for complete CPU solution?

If you do not have enough funding to but a NVIDIA TESLA with proper 
double-precision support or if you are planning to use the server _only_ for QE 
then I suggest you to go for the CPU-only solution.


> 4. I know that CUDA is nvida's platform but is it possible to run Quantum 
> ESPRESSO on AMD's platform (i.e on AMD APU series processors)?

No.

HTH

--
Mr. Filippo SPIGA, M.Sc.
Quantum ESPRESSO Foundation
http://www.quantum-espresso.org ~ skype: filippo.spiga

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