This is my first post on CUDA Zone, and it’s a typical newbie’s question.
I am running CUDA 2.2 on Windows Vista. The GPU card is Quadro NVS 140M with 128MB global memory (confirmed by deviceQuery app). I wrote my first line of CUDA code, and it failed :-(.
int ret = cudaMalloc( (void**) &deviceData, 32 * (1 << 20)); //Allocate 32MB global memory. This function returns -2.
If I allocate 16MByte instead, the call is successful. I thought that I could allocate up to 128 MB memory. When I ran the bandwithTest sample, it failed too reporting “line 702: out of memory”, as the application tries to allocate 64MB memory. I am not sure about the reason, but suspect:
- It is a driver problem (version 8.15.0011.8585)
- CUDA gives limited access to global memories when making cudaMalloc calls.
- Other unknown reasons.
Thanks for your thoughts in advance!
lakeeast