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

Josh Cullum josh.cullum at cfms.org.uk
Wed Nov 19 17:43:56 CET 2014


Hi Marco,

I get the error in both the Supported and Experimental feature set.

Gottfried, I'm downloading 2.69 now and will give it a go in a moment.

Kind Regards,

Josh Cullum

On 19 November 2014 16:40, Marco G <marco.gzt at gmail.com> wrote:

> Is Experimental feature kernel disabled? (switch to Supported).
> Experimental needs quite a lot of memory.
>
> MG
>
> 2014-11-19 17:38 GMT+01:00 Josh Cullum <josh.cullum at cfms.org.uk>:
>
>> 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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