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<p class="MsoNormal">I have not been following progress of developments closely and am still using mesa 7.6.1 on most of my CPU only machines (because it works reliably for the plain OpenGL stuff).<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I’d like to run some Cuda-OpenGL interop tests on one of our GPU enabled machines with Tesla K20X GPUs installed (272 of them).
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<p class="MsoNormal">Is there any version of mesa that I can use on these type of systems that allows me to
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</span></span><![endif]>Make use of the hardware<o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span><![endif]>Pass arrays from cuda to mesa GL for VBOs etc to avoid CPU/GPU exchange of arrays at each render.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">In the past the lack of any X installation was a problem with hardware access, but with mesa 9.x perhaps this has changed and it’s now possible for me to use an accelerated GL on these machines.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I’d welcome any info – I looked through the nouveau wiki but didn’t see anything that was encouraging, so I’m guessing I can’t use the GPUs for graphics.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">JB<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">--
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">John Biddiscombe, email:biddisco @.at.@ cscs.ch<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><a href="http://www.cscs.ch/"><span style="color:windowtext">http://www.cscs.ch/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">CSCS, Swiss National Supercomputing Centre | Tel: +41 (91) 610.82.07<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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