Programs don't use my 2 Geforce SLI

Accelerated Computing CUDA CUDA Programming and Performance
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Hello,

I have two 8800GTX. If I activate or not the SLI, I have roughly the same performance for my CUDA program and this performance is the same as an other machine with only 1Geforce.
My CUDA program is using a Monte-Carlo (a derivative of your project), so the calculation is massively parallel.

If I take for example your Mersenne twister project I get identical results
with SLI:RandomGPUtime: 8.49; BoxMullerGPUTime: 4.45
without SLI:RandomGPUtime: 8.55; BoxMullerGPUTime: 4.57

Geforce 1: IRQ: 0 PCI ExpressX16
Geforce 1: IRQ: 16 PCI ExpressX8
DirectX9.0c
I have installed sdk/toolkit version 1.1 + driver
I compile with VC++ 2005 lignt edition

Thansk for your help .

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CUDA does not support SLI. Each card is independent and the programmer needs to take care of the multiple devices.

Take a look at the MonteCarloMultiGPU example. It supports multiple GPUs.

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Hi x248,

Could you share your experience with MonteCarloMultiGPU example? how about the performance gain? I am also planning to use multiple GPUs, and wish to get some information from you. Thanks a lot.