|
[Sponsors] |
May 3, 2012, 13:42 |
entry level gpu
|
#1 |
Member
lalupp
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: India
Posts: 44
Rep Power: 15 |
I would like to know which is the cheapest gpu , just for learning cuda programming for cfd purposes.
recently I purchased a cheap graphics card geforce 210 . Can I start programming with this . Latter I would like to submit a project proposal for fermi like systems Any idea |
|
May 5, 2012, 11:48 |
|
#2 |
Member
Join Date: Jul 2011
Posts: 59
Rep Power: 14 |
My plan was to buy an ivy bridge processor and start learning opencl. The new imbedded HD graphics support opencl 1.1. There aren't particularly fast(esp for DP) but it will be enough to program with and debug. You could then take the code you have developed and run it on Amazon's cloud service. You could rent some time with a gpgpu, enough to do some quick benchmarking for very cheap. This was my plan. Was gonna upgrade my system and wanted to start learning opencl but didn't want to drop spend too much if it proved to be too much trouble.
|
|
May 7, 2012, 10:09 |
|
#3 |
Member
Join Date: Jul 2011
Posts: 59
Rep Power: 14 |
That being said looking at the 210 it has compute capability 1.2 which means it does not support double precision. You can still do single precision work with this card but it would probably be better to just grab something a little newer.
http://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-gpus DP wasn't supported until 1.3 |
|
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
[snappyHexMesh] Adding layers goes wrong with SnappyHexMesh | Elise | OpenFOAM Meshing & Mesh Conversion | 1 | April 22, 2013 02:32 |
[snappyHexMesh] Boundary layer in a pipe | Clementhuon | OpenFOAM Meshing & Mesh Conversion | 6 | March 12, 2012 12:41 |
[snappyHexMesh] sMH refinement level | subhkirti | OpenFOAM Meshing & Mesh Conversion | 0 | October 13, 2010 04:10 |
[snappyHexMesh] snappyHexMesh - Refinement Level | andrea.pasquali | OpenFOAM Meshing & Mesh Conversion | 5 | February 8, 2010 03:08 |
Entry level CFD Jobs Section | Tez | Main CFD Forum | 1 | February 20, 2007 01:19 |