Nvidia ® Cuda™ Technology; Requirements; Installing Cuda-Ready Graphics Cards - Asus P7F7-E WS SUPERCOMPUTER User Manual

5.3 NVIDIA
The motherboard supports the NVIDIA
Quadro™ graphics card and up to three NVIDIA
cards, providing the optimum multi purpose computing performance. Follow the
installation procedures in this section.
The motherboard supports 4 NVIDIA Tesla cards when you install Clarkdale
processor.
5.3.1

Requirements

• 32/64-bit Microsoft
• A minimum of 1GB RAM
• A power supply unit (PSU) of 1200W is recommended while using one
NVIDIA Quadro™ graphics card and three NVIDIA
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processor cards.
• We recommend that you install additional chassis fans for better thermal
environment.
• Visit the NVIDIA CUDA Zone website at http://www.nvidia.com/object/
cuda_home.html for the latest driver, list of CUDA-certified graphics card
and supported 3D application list.
5.3.2

Installing CUDA-ready graphics cards

The following pictures are for reference only. The graphics cards and the
motherboard layout may vary with models, but the installation steps remain the
same.
1. Prepare one NVIDIA Quadro
graphics card and up to three
NVIDIA Tesla computing processor
cards.
2. Insert the Quadro graphics card into
the PCIe x16_1 slot. Ensure that the
card is properly seated on the slot.
ASUS P7F7-E WS Supercomputer
CUDA™ technology
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CUDA™ technology with one NVIDIA
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Windows XP/ Vista/ Linux RHEL5.3/ Open SuSE11.0 OS
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Tesla™ computing processor
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Tesla™ computing
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