Has any one used this GPU board NVidia Tesla C1060? would be compined with 2)GeForce GTX 560 Ti Video Cards, ASUS Rampage III Black Edition ROG Motherboard, Intel Core i7-990X 3.46 GHz, 24GB of DDR3 Ram, 2) 1TB sata drives, looking for more computing power.

thanks for the advice

It is estimated that the nVidia Tesla C1060 is about as powerful as a GTX 285, but consumes considerably more power.

If you're looking for more computing power, I'd suggest going with triple-SLI and get another GTX 560 Ti. Make sure your power supply can handle it first, of course.

If you're looking for more computing power, I'd suggest going with triple-SLI and get another GTX 560 Ti. Make sure your power supply can handle it first, of course.

I think the 560 Ti (like too many of Nvidia's later offerings) only does 2fer-SLI; there's just one connector on it.

Martin

the GT 560 series i have can only run in 2 way SLI configuration, one reason i was thinking of adding the tesla to the system.

Then don't run it in SLI, just run all three individually.

Have you seen the width of those things? How do you add 3 next to each other in one system? Mustn't be a tower of sorts either, as how do you hang three of those things underneath each other without ripping your motherboard to pieces?

I see an Asus GTX560 TI DCII TOP/2DI/1G weighs in at 2.87lbs, that's 1.29 kilos. You sure you want 4 kilos of videocard in your tower? ;-)

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bionc will see all 3 cards and utilize all 3 in that way? if so thanks for the help.

i figure while im am still in the building of this system mind as well utilize all features that i paid for and its for a good cause. figured my budget for this build was 7K and i am about 5K currently

If you are a gamer it's an other topic..

But for CUDA calculation you need to disable SLI for max performance. Newer driver should do this automatically.

So if you would like to build a crunching machine, you could add different cards in one PC case.
But you shouldn't combine non- (8xxx to GTX2xx series)/ & Fermi (GTX4xx+) cards in one PC case, because BOINC can't send different numbers of WUs to different (non-/&Fermi) GPUs.
Because with the currently available CUDA apps you would need to let run 2+ WUs/GPU simultaneously for whole Fermi chip usage.
On non Fermi GPUs this isn't possible, there only 1 WU/GPU.


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bionc will see all 3 cards and utilize all 3 in that way? if so thanks for the help.

Yes, BOINC will see all three cards and utilize all 3.

So, you're saying that it is not recommended to combine a GTX260 and a GTX560Ti in the same computer for boinc crunching?

I currently have a GTX260 and was planning to add a GTX560Ti in the same computer. I am just starting to read and learn about optiziming my GPU crunching. So, I have not yet enabled multiple WUs per GPU yet.

Any advise would be appreciated.

Thanks
Greg

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Better move the GeForce GTX 260 to another computer (Core 2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz)
and put the GTX 560Ti in "this" (Core 2 Quad CPU Q9450 @ 2.66GHz) computer.
(unless you want to use the GTX 260 as PhysX card for gaming)

It is possible to use the mixed GTX 260/560Ti configuration with both standard and optimized apps (which I see you use now: "Multibeam x38g Preview, Cuda 3.20" (Lunatics_x38g_win32_cuda32.exe))
but GTX 260 is not capable of running effectively 2 tasks at once.


If you want to test it - do it now before adding the GTX 560Ti :

Suspend all tasks
Exit BOINC

Go to ....\projects\setiathome.berkeley.edu\
Make copy of app_info.xml (for easy undo of changes)
Edit app_info.xml with Notepad
Make the changes (info bellow) and save the file

Start BOINC
Resume 2 CUDA tasks

Look closely for the running times and possible errors


The changes to make:
In the following section change the all 6 occurrences of:
<count>1</count>
to:
<count>0.5</count>

<app_info>
    <app>
        <name>setiathome_enhanced</name>
    </app>
    <file_info>
        <name>Lunatics_x38g_win32_cuda32.exe</name>
        <executable/>
    </file_info>
    <file_info>
        <name>cudart32_32_16.dll</name>
        <executable/>
    </file_info>
    <file_info>
        <name>cufft32_32_16.dll</name>
        <executable/>
    </file_info>
    <app_version>
        <app_name>setiathome_enhanced</app_name>
        <version_num>610</version_num>
	<platform>windows_intelx86</platform>
        <plan_class>cuda_fermi</plan_class>
        <avg_ncpus>0.040000</avg_ncpus>
        <max_ncpus>0.040000</max_ncpus>
        <coproc>
            <type>CUDA</type>
            <count>1</count>
        </coproc>
        <file_ref>
            <file_name>Lunatics_x38g_win32_cuda32.exe</file_name>
            <main_program/>
         </file_ref>
        <file_ref>
	       <file_name>cudart32_32_16.dll</file_name>
        </file_ref>
        <file_ref>
            <file_name>cufft32_32_16.dll</file_name>
        </file_ref>
    </app_version>
    <app_version>
        <app_name>setiathome_enhanced</app_name>
        <version_num>609</version_num>
	<platform>windows_intelx86</platform>
        <plan_class>cuda23</plan_class>
        <avg_ncpus>0.040000</avg_ncpus>
        <max_ncpus>0.040000</max_ncpus>
        <coproc>
            <type>CUDA</type>
            <count>1</count>
        </coproc>
        <file_ref>
            <file_name>Lunatics_x38g_win32_cuda32.exe</file_name>
            <main_program/>
         </file_ref>
        <file_ref>
	       <file_name>cudart32_32_16.dll</file_name>
        </file_ref>
        <file_ref>
            <file_name>cufft32_32_16.dll</file_name>
        </file_ref>
    </app_version>
    <app_version>
        <app_name>setiathome_enhanced</app_name>
        <version_num>608</version_num>
	<platform>windows_intelx86</platform>
        <plan_class>cuda</plan_class>
        <avg_ncpus>0.040000</avg_ncpus>
        <max_ncpus>0.040000</max_ncpus>
        <coproc>
            <type>CUDA</type>
            <count>1</count>
        </coproc>
        <file_ref>
            <file_name>Lunatics_x38g_win32_cuda32.exe</file_name>
            <main_program/>
         </file_ref>
        <file_ref>
	       <file_name>cudart32_32_16.dll</file_name>
        </file_ref>
        <file_ref>
            <file_name>cufft32_32_16.dll</file_name>
        </file_ref>
    </app_version>
    <app_version>
        <app_name>setiathome_enhanced</app_name>
        <version_num>610</version_num>
	<platform>windows_x86_64</platform>
        <plan_class>cuda_fermi</plan_class>
        <avg_ncpus>0.040000</avg_ncpus>
        <max_ncpus>0.040000</max_ncpus>
        <coproc>
            <type>CUDA</type>
            <count>1</count>
        </coproc>
        <file_ref>
            <file_name>Lunatics_x38g_win32_cuda32.exe</file_name>
            <main_program/>
         </file_ref>
        <file_ref>
	       <file_name>cudart32_32_16.dll</file_name>
        </file_ref>
        <file_ref>
            <file_name>cufft32_32_16.dll</file_name>
        </file_ref>
    </app_version>
    <app_version>
        <app_name>setiathome_enhanced</app_name>
        <version_num>609</version_num>
	<platform>windows_x86_64</platform>
        <plan_class>cuda23</plan_class>
        <avg_ncpus>0.040000</avg_ncpus>
        <max_ncpus>0.040000</max_ncpus>
        <coproc>
            <type>CUDA</type>
            <count>1</count>
        </coproc>
        <file_ref>
            <file_name>Lunatics_x38g_win32_cuda32.exe</file_name>
            <main_program/>
         </file_ref>
        <file_ref>
	       <file_name>cudart32_32_16.dll</file_name>
        </file_ref>
        <file_ref>
            <file_name>cufft32_32_16.dll</file_name>
        </file_ref>
    </app_version>
    <app_version>
        <app_name>setiathome_enhanced</app_name>
        <version_num>608</version_num>
	<platform>windows_x86_64</platform>
        <plan_class>cuda</plan_class>
        <avg_ncpus>0.040000</avg_ncpus>
        <max_ncpus>0.040000</max_ncpus>
        <coproc>
            <type>CUDA</type>
            <count>1</count>
        </coproc>
        <file_ref>
            <file_name>Lunatics_x38g_win32_cuda32.exe</file_name>
            <main_program/>
         </file_ref>
        <file_ref>
	       <file_name>cudart32_32_16.dll</file_name>
        </file_ref>
        <file_ref>
            <file_name>cufft32_32_16.dll</file_name>
        </file_ref>
    </app_version>
</app_info>

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