[Pw_forum] PWscf & GPUs

[Ben Palmer]

Hi Sonu,

It sounds as though the card I am looking at would work and is quite 
cheap compared to the high end cards.

All the best,

Ben

>
>
> On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 8:16 PM, Ben Palmer <benpalmer1983 at gmail.com 
> <mailto:benpalmer1983 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi everyone,
>
> Hi Ben,
>
>      Are there any limitations to the type of graphics card required,
>     like a minimum compute capability version?
>
>
> Yes !!
>
> here are the requirements:
> #  1 # Requirements
>
> >> Strongly suggested:
> - Intel compiler (versions above 11) or PGI compiler (tested up to 12.8)
> - GNU GCC/GFORTRAN (version above 4.1 but lower than 4.6)
> - NVIDIA cards (compute capability >= 2.0)
> - CUDA 4.x OR CUDA 5.0
> - MKL (version >=10.x) or ACML (>= 4.4.x, >= 5.x)
> - python >= 2.4.x
> - Quantum ESPRESSO 5.0.2[1,2]
>
> >> Minimum:
> - GNU GCC/GFORTRAN (version above 4.1 but lower than 4.6)
> - NVIDIA cards (compute capability >= 1.3)
> - CUDA 4.x OR CUDA 5.0
> - python >= 2.4.x
> - Quantum ESPRESSO 5.0.2
>
> Good Luck !!
>
> S.Kumar
> IITD
>
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