Thomas Zeiser

Some comments by Thomas Zeiser about HPC@RRZE and other things

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Xserver/VirtualGL on NVidia K20m GPGPUs

As delivered, our NVidia K20m GPGPUs were in GPU Operation Mode 1/COMPUTE. If one tries to start the Xorg server, /var/log/Xorg.0.log shows:

    [   134.516] (II) NVIDIA: Using 4095.62 MB of virtual memory for indirect memory
    [   134.516] (II) NVIDIA:     access.
    [   134.523] (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to allocate 2D engine
    [   134.523] (EE) NVIDIA(0):  *** Aborting ***
    [   134.523] (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to allocate 2D objects
    [   134.523] (EE) NVIDIA(0):  *** Aborting ***
    [   134.619] Fatal server error:
    [   134.619] AddScreen/ScreenInit failed for driver 0

Using nvidia-smi --gom=0 and rebooting the node, the GPU Operation Mode can be set to 0/ALL_ON. Now, starting the Xorg server succeeds (and VirtualGL should work for remote visualization).

According to the documentation for NVidia driver 325.15, setting the GPU Operation Mode is only supported on  “GK110 M-class and X-class Tesla products from the Kepler family”.