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

Josh Cullum josh.cullum at cfms.org.uk
Thu Nov 20 00:00:33 CET 2014


Hi Thomas,

Ok thanks, I've submitted it now.

Kind Regards,

Josh Cullum

On 19 November 2014 22:41, Thomas Dinges <blender at dingto.org> wrote:

>  Josh, for further help, please make a bug report.
> http://developer.blender.org/
> Further discussion can happen there.
>
> Am 19.11.2014 um 23:07 schrieb Josh Cullum:
>
> Does anyone have any thoughts as to why this isn't working on our tesla's?
> We are requiring it to work with them as we cannot sustain working on a
> single GTX660, when we have 6 GPGPU Tesla's available to use.
>
>  Kind Regards,
>
>  Josh Cullum
>
> On 19 November 2014 16:58, Josh Cullum <josh.cullum at cfms.org.uk> wrote:
>
>> However it still seems to be rendering on 2.72b (Just updated from 2.72)
>> with the GTX660 with no issues
>>
>> On 19 November 2014 16:53, Josh Cullum <josh.cullum at cfms.org.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Gottfried,
>>>
>>>  Unfortunately, I get the same error when trying to run this with
>>> blender 2.69 as well.
>>>
>>>  Kind Regards,
>>>
>>>  Josh Cullum
>>>
>>> On 19 November 2014 16:43, Josh Cullum <josh.cullum at cfms.org.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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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