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<p>Hi,</p>
<p>it's fine to compile Cycles Standalone on your workstation. Just
enable the cubin kernel compile inside of CMake and copy them over
to the Azure VM alongside the cycles.exe. Then you don't have to
worry about copying the kernels from Blender.</p>
<p>Best regards,</p>
<p>Thomas<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 11.12.2016 um 14:16 schrieb Prayaag
Kasundra:<br>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Hi, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">-I do compile cycles standalone myself.
But that’s on my workstation. Doing that on Azure VM will be
kind of difficult (installing visual studio etc in VM) . <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">-The Cycles executable I am using on
Azure VM was built/compiled from <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://t.sidekickopen61.com/e1t/c/5/f18dQhb0S7lC8dDMPbW2n0x6l2B9nMJW7t5XX463JTCKW8p-VBW4WYH62W3MhGXn56dDfZf8fcGzM02?t=https%3A%2F%2Fdeveloper.blender.org%2Fdiffusion%2FC%2Fbrowse%2Fmaster%2F%3Bv1.7.0&si=4580378421231616&pi=8350d83e-5482-46bf-aaa9-f8d63c870dc6">1.7.0
tag</a> from Cycles repository<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">-The cubin files was copied from
blender-2.78-62a2ed9-win64.zip on <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://builder.blender.org/download/">https://builder.blender.org/download/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">I am not sure the blender zip I copied
the file from and the cycles commit I built the cycles from
match or not. Please tell me which version of blender I should
copy from for cycles built from 1.7.0 tag from cycles
repository. Also is there any standard way to determine which
cycles commit matches which blender build version ?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Also it would be great if someone can
publish cycles standalone releases (executables) for every
blender releases. The executables which works with all ranges
of CUDA devices. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Prayaag<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">On Sun, Dec 11, 12:39 PM, Thomas Dinges
<<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:blender@dingto.org">blender@dingto.org</a>>
wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
<pre><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="color:black">> My best guess is, that the binary, which you copied, doesn't match the <o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="color:black">> Cycles version of the standalone repository.<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="color:black">> <o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="color:black">> Make sure they match, then it should work. Do you compile Cycles <o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="color:black">> standalone yourself? Then you should be able to compile the <o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="color:black">> corresponding CUDA kernel alongside.<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="color:black">><o:p> </o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="color:black">><o:p> </o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="color:black">>Am 11.12.2016 um 08:42 schrieb Prayaag Kasundra:<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="color:black">>><i><o:p> </o:p></i></span></pre>
<pre><span style="color:black">>><i> We are trying to run cycles on new Azure N series (NC6 ) Virtual <o:p></o:p></i></span></pre>
<pre><span style="color:black">>><i> Machines which has Nvidia Tesla K80 GPUs<o:p></o:p></i></span></pre>
<pre><span style="color:black">>><i><o:p> </o:p></i></span></pre>
<pre><span style="color:black">>><i> -I created fresh new VM with Windows Server 2016 OS and installed <o:p></o:p></i></span></pre>
<pre><span style="color:black">>><i> Tesla K80 drivers from Nvidia website<o:p></o:p></i></span></pre>
<pre><span style="color:black">>><i><o:p> </o:p></i></span></pre>
<pre><span style="color:black">>><i> -I installed CUDA tookit 8.0 (Win 10 installer)<o:p></o:p></i></span></pre>
<pre><span style="color:black">>><i><o:p> </o:p></i></span></pre>
<pre><span style="color:black">>><i> - Now after running –list-devices option I saw K80 in the device list <o:p></o:p></i></span></pre>
<pre><span style="color:black">>><i> along with CPU .<o:p></o:p></i></span></pre>
<pre><span style="color:black">>><i><o:p> </o:p></i></span></pre>
<pre><span style="color:black">>><i> -After that I ran a render with device=cuda and got this error <o:p></o:p></i></span></pre>
<pre><span style="color:black">>><i> <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://prntscr.com/dhz3g9">http://prntscr.com/dhz3g9</a> . So I copied kernel_sm_37.cubin file from <o:p></o:p></i></span></pre>
<pre><span style="color:black">>><i> blender/scripts/addon/cycles/bin folder of latest blender build zip.<o:p></o:p></i></span></pre>
<pre><span style="color:black">>><i><o:p> </o:p></i></span></pre>
<pre><span style="color:black">>><i> - After that the above error went away but then new error appeared <o:p></o:p></i></span></pre>
<pre><span style="color:black">>><i> <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://prntscr.com/dhz3wd">http://prntscr.com/dhz3wd</a><o:p></o:p></i></span></pre>
<pre><span style="color:black">>><i><o:p> </o:p></i></span></pre>
<pre><span style="color:black">>><i> How do I fix this ? Please help.<o:p></o:p></i></span></pre>
<pre><span style="color:black">>><i><o:p> </o:p></i></span></pre>
<pre><span style="color:black">>><i> Thanks,<o:p></o:p></i></span></pre>
<pre><span style="color:black">>><i><o:p> </o:p></i></span></pre>
<pre><span style="color:black">>><i> Prayaag<o:p></o:p></i></span></pre>
<pre><span style="color:black">>><i><o:p> </o:p></i></span></pre>
<pre><span style="color:black">>><i><o:p> </o:p></i></span></pre>
<pre><span style="color:black">>><i><o:p> </o:p></i></span></pre>
<pre><span style="color:black">>><i> _______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></i></span></pre>
<pre><span style="color:black">>><i> Bf-cycles mailing list<o:p></o:p></i></span></pre>
<pre><span style="color:black">>><i> <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://t.sidekickopen61.com/e1t/c/5/f18dQhb0S7lC8dDMPbW2n0x6l2B9nMJW7t5XX463JTCKW8p-VBW4WYH62W3MhGXn56dDfZf8fcGzM02?t=https%3A%2F%2Flists.blender.org%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Fbf-cycles&si=4580378421231616&pi=8350d83e-5482-46bf-aaa9-f8d63c870dc6">Bf-cycles at blender.org</a><o:p></o:p></i></span></pre>
<pre><span style="color:black">>><i> <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-cycles">https://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-cycles</a></i><o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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