Tesla Drivers for Win HPC 2008 RC2

ashishpancholi · December 18, 2009, 9:10am

Hello,

I have installed the HPC server 2008 RC2 trial and want to use my Tesla c1060 in the nodes of the cluster.
(4 machines. Each with Foxconn Destroyer Motherboard, 3X Tesla c1060, Phenom II).
I cannot find the drivers listed in the Driver download section. I have tried XP 64 and Windows server 2003 x64 drivers but they
donot work. Which drivers will work for HPC server 2008 ? Is there a release planned for them ?

Ashish

Sarnath · December 18, 2009, 11:43am

MS HPC Server 2008 is for CPUs… I dont think they support GPUs, Do they?

but well, you should be able to run MPI+CUDA combines on it… That way, yes… but still CPU scheduling will only be used by MS HPC 2008… so smart scheduling will not be guaranteed… but yeah, it should work…

ashishpancholi · December 19, 2009, 6:28am

I checked this link on the Microsoft site

“Phil's Blog | Microsoft Learn”

Donot know how it will work though so trying to test. No luck with the graphics driver though :(

So no recognition of the devices !! :">

Sarnath · December 21, 2009, 6:01am

[url=“http://resourcekit.windowshpc.net/DEVELOPER/Papers2/GPU%20Computing%20in%20Windows%20HPC%20Server%202008_Final.pdf”]http://resourcekit.windowshpc.net/DEVELOPE...02008_Final.pdf[/url]

They have GPGPU support in the form of DirectX 11 (exposing the compute shader facility).

I think this is a bit different from accessing compute shaders using CUDA.

MSFT supports only MSFT technologies… They are very generous.

ashishpancholi · December 21, 2009, 7:10am

Thanks for the link to the whitepaper :) But DirectX 11 is just their lib not a driver !!! And in the paper they mention

only the need of a dirver being installed and a session other than session 0 for running the application that access the

GPU :mellow:

Now these few line in the whitepaper made me look up at the HPC option:

"

In Windows HPC Server 2008 the GPU is accessed from the video driver. The video driver is only loaded in the console session. Therefore, programs which

rely on access to the video driver must be run in the console session.

A locally logged on console session must be created first or jobs submitted using the HPC_ATTACHTOCONSOLE=TRUE variable will fail. The console session

owner must be the same as the user who the job is running as.

Steps for Submitting GPGPU Jobs to the Windows HPC Server 2008 Job Scheduler:

Now that you understand sessions and the new command-line HPC_ATTACHTOCONSOLE variable in Windows HPC Server 2008, you are ready to review the steps for starting GPGPU programs.

Install and set up Windows HPC Server 2008 and MicrosoftÂ® HPC Pack 2008 on your cluster.

Install your GPGPU enabled video drivers on your compute nodes.

Create a logged on local console session on your GPU enabled compute nodes with the same user that GPGPU jobs will be run as.

(Optional) create a Job Scheduler GPGPU group for your nodes that have GPUs.

Submit your GPGPU jobs to the job scheduler using HPC_ATTACHTOCONSOLE and using the same user account as the owner of the console session. If you created the Job Scheduler GPGPU group, then you can also specify that the job only be scheduled on nodes in that group.

"

This ‘access from the video driver’ is what we do presently. I donot understand the need to use the DirectX 11. DirectX lib also accesses the Vid drivers and so does cuda_lib External Media Am I missing something ???

tmurray · December 21, 2009, 7:38am

uh, Vista drivers work on Win7, Server 08, Server 08 R2, HPC 2008, etc.

Sarnath · December 21, 2009, 7:46am

Hm… i am not too sure about directx… So, I take back my words on MSFT’s generosity…

I am tracking this thread… Ashish, Let us know if u got it working… That would be cooooool

ashishpancholi · December 21, 2009, 10:11am

Finally !! Got that , done that and that works. Win 7 (64 bit) drivers work in HPC server 2008 R2.

Thanks a ton.!!! External Media

Sarnath · December 22, 2009, 5:05am

Cooool! Thanks!