DirectX Code on Tesla c1060 Board Can you get a valid DirectX Device tied to a Tesla GPU?

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Hi Folks,

I hope that this is the right place to ask this.

I’m wondering whether it is possible to use DirectX 9 renderers & shaders on a tesla c1060? I don’t mind that it doesn’t have a display, I have an existing volume renderer that I can set up to render to a texture then copy it back to main memory. If I can get away without having to reimplement it in CUDA, then that will save me a chunk of time.

I’m still waiting on a board to turn up, so I’ve not been able to see if it turns up when enumerating the D3D devices.

Thanks for you help.

Steve.

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AFAIK yes.

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AFAIK, Tesla boards do not appear as a display device in Windows, so you can’t create a Direct3D context on them.

It is possible to create an OpenGL context on Tesla under Linux, although we don’t officially support this.

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They don’t? What do they appear as?

I remember reading that one could launch OpenGL shaders on Teslas as they are basically video cards without output connectors. I thought it’d be the same with D3D shaders.