The latest CUDA driver needed to run GPUmat won’t recognize my graphics card!
Step 1:
I’m trying to start using GPUmat with Matlab. Following the instuctions on the GPUmat homepage:
System requirements
Please download the GPUmat version corresponding to your CUDA installation. For example, GPUmat_0.1_CUDA_2.1 is the GPUmat version 0.1 that works with NVIDIA CUDA 2.1. NVIDIA CUDA must be installed to use GPUmat. GPUmat was tested with MATLAB ver. R2007a or newer installed.
http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_get.html
*Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable Package (x86) INSTALLED
Step 2:
Trying to do that the installation program gives an error message stating that I am missing the appropriate hardware. I checked the graphics card and this computer has an NVIDIA Quadro FX 770 M, which is mentioned on the list of CUDA-enabled products. It already has a driver installed but GPUmat won’t work.
http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_learn_products.html
Step 3:
Further investigation tells me I already have the correct type of driver. My problem seems to be a too old version (176.26, should be 190.xx) , as described on page 4 in this document:
http://developer.download.nvidia.com/compu…2.3_Windows.pdf
To update the driver I follow the recommended link and end up in the error message from step 2 again. (same page)
Step 4:
So, I uninstall the old driver and try to install through step 1 again. The same error message about wrong hardware.
Error message from Matlab R2009b when trying to run GPUmat with the old driver:
GPUstart
Copyright gp-you.org. GPUmat is distribuited as Freeware.
By using GPUmat, you accept all the terms and conditions
specified in the license.txt file.
Please send any suggestion or bug report to gp-you@gp-you.org.
Starting GPU
Unable to load the kernels in file C:\Documents and Settings\Frida\My Documents\MATLAB\GPUmat\GPUmat\cuda\cudalib11.dat. Running system diagnostics.
*** GPUmat system diagnostics
- Running on → “win32”
- GPUmat version → 0.21
- GPUmat build → 06-Nov-2009
- GPUmat architecture → “win32”
*** ARCHITECTURE TEST
*** GPUmat architecture test → passed.
*** CUDA TEST
*** CUDA CUBLAS → installed.
*** CUDA CUFFT → installed.
*** CUDA CUDART → installed.
??? Error using ==> GPUstart at 110
Unable to load the kernels in file C:\Documents and Settings\Frida\My
Documents\MATLAB\GPUmat\GPUmat\cuda\cudalib11.dat. Please report this problem to
gp-you@gp-you.org.