[Bf-cycles] Issue with rendering using GPU's

Sergey Sharybin sergey.vfx at gmail.com
Wed Nov 19 17:26:25 CET 2014


My first suggestion would be to check GPU memory usage.

But you referenced to attached .blend. Out ML doesn't allow to do big
attachments, so do you mind re-uploading it somewhere (like, pasteall) and
giving a link here?

On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 5:19 PM, Josh Cullum <josh.cullum at cfms.org.uk>
wrote:

> Ahh Sorry all, Will do in future Dan.
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> Josh Cullum
>
> On 19 November 2014 16:18, Dan McGrath <danmcgrath.ca at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Josh,
>>
>> Oops, it looks like you sent a very large email to the list. For future
>> reference, please use pasteall.org to post large blender files and use a
>> link in the email instead of attaching it to the email itself.
>>
>> And apologies to the rest of the list for such a large email!
>>
>>
>> Dan
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 10:43 AM, Josh Cullum <josh.cullum at cfms.org.uk>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi There,
>>>
>>> I have an issue with a particular scene that has been created on another
>>> PC (Windows 7, Nvidia GTX660) and sent to me to render using a HPC GPU node
>>> ( RHEL 6.4, 2x Nvidia Tesla M2070). We are seeing an error within blender
>>> when trying to render this specific scene on the HPC GPU node using Cycles
>>> render, *CUDA error: Invalid value in cuTexRefSetAddress(NULL, texref,
>>> cuda_device_ptr(mem.device_poi**nter), size)* which bombs out the
>>> render as soon as the BVH mesh has been calculated. The settings are 1000
>>> samples @ 2160x3064 with 256x256 tiles, the .blend file is attached (zipped)
>>>
>>> However, we seem to be able to render in 4K @ 1000 samples with 256x256
>>> tiles, Mike Pans BMW test case without any issues, as well as the latest
>>> test case, the cycles_bench_272.blend using the GPU's and having no issues
>>> at all.
>>>
>>> The version we are running on the GPU machine is Blender 2.72b, with the
>>> latest Nvidia drivers 340.58.
>>>
>>> Kind Regards,
>>>
>>> Josh Cullum
>>>
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