[Bf-committers] Builders: please upgrade to CUDA 5.0

Jürgen Herrmann shadowrom at me.com
Thu Jun 20 17:36:29 CEST 2013


Hi Brecht,

Cuda 5.0 doesn't build with VS2012 when using scons.
The VS2012 build bot uses Cuda 5.5 RC already.
It is a bit slower than cuda 5.0 but I hope this gets better when NVidia releases the final 5.5.

/Jürgen

Am 20.06.2013 um 15:47 schrieb Brecht Van Lommel <brechtvanlommel at gmail.com>:

> Hi all,
> 
> I'd like to switch from CUDA 4.2 to 5.0 for official builds and
> buildbots, and I suggest everyone making own builds to switch too.
> https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-downloads
> 
> Reasons:
> * Support NVidia Titan graphics cards (sm_35)
> * Significant Cycles speedups for some scenes and graphics cards
> * Builds with visual studio 2012
> * Means we can remove some workarounds for CUDA 4.2 bugs
> 
> I've updated the configurations to include sm_35, but it will not give
> a build error yet if this can't be compiled, just a warning.
> 
> If you get an error installing it regarding incompatible GCC versions,
> you can run the installer with the -override flag and remove this line
> from /usr/local/cuda-5.0/include/host_config.h after installation.
> Since we do no directly link the CUDA code into our C/C++ code this is
> not a real compatibility issue for us.
> #error -- unsupported GNU version! gcc 4.7 and up are not supported!
> 
> Thanks!
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