<div dir="ltr">Wow this thread brings back memories. 3DStudio 3.0 for DOS / Pentium 100 Mhz / 32 MB RAM . Scene with glass windows ... Just forget the machine for a week :)<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 9:03 PM, Jim Kinney <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com" target="_blank">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">All of the Tesla cards are well usable as long as you load the nvidia binary drivers.</p>
<p dir="ltr">You can get cuda cores from non-tesla cards as well. Several of the gamer class cards have many such cores with a decent amount of GRAM. </p>
<p dir="ltr">You can have multiple graphics cards. The trick is to customize xorg.conf to only use the non nvidia. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Rpmfusion is the repo for nvidia drivers for fedora.</p><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">
<div class="gmail_quote">On Jun 8, 2015 8:43 PM, "Michael Trausch" <<a href="mailto:mike@trausch.us" target="_blank">mike@trausch.us</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">For my current work (videos less than a couple of minutes long with low complexity in NTSC resolution) my CPU does just fine. However, I would like to speed up rendering for scenes to be somewhat faster.<br>
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It seems that Blender supports "CUDA GPU devices with compute ability > 2.0", which the tesla line all does.<br>
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However I currently have ATI video output that works well, and I'd like to retain that if at all possible. So, a few questions that I hope someone has the answer to, in the hopes of saving some money in research...<br>
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1. Can I have both ATI and NVIDIA hardware in the same system, using ATI for display and NVIDIA just for processing? I like having a well working KMS setup which supports both X11 and Weston/Wayland.<br>
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2. Does anyone know what would be the most painless in terms of well-supported devices on Fedora 21 or Fedora 22 workstation? Ideally I just want to plug it in and be able to tell blender to use it.<br>
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3. The K80 seems to be the best bet. Can anyone confirm this?<br>
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4. Lastly, has the state of NVIDIA binary drivers in general improved? I've been out of the NVIDIA world since probably 2010 or so. At least then, it was a royal PITA to make work (right), but it was okay after that as long as nothing changed.<br>
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