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

Josh Cullum josh.cullum at cfms.org.uk
Wed Nov 19 17:38:31 CET 2014


Hi Sergey,

The blend file is here: http://www.pasteall.org/blend/32955

In Blender, I'm getting the memory as 1516.46M, but both GPU's have 6GB
memory each.

Kind Regards,

Josh Cullum

On 19 November 2014 16:26, Sergey Sharybin <sergey.vfx at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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