Sli on GPUgrid

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Logan Carr Send message Joined: 12 Aug 15 Posts: 240 Credit: 64,069,811 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications	Message 49422 - Posted: 10 May 2018, 1:30:02 UTC Hi all, I recently bought my first mobo with Nvidia SLI. So far I have one GTX 1070 and am considering another for SLI. Will SLI work on this project and make a difference for me? Thank you. -Logan ID: 49422 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Zalster Send message Joined: 26 Feb 14 Posts: 211 Credit: 4,496,324,562 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications	Message 49423 - Posted: 10 May 2018, 1:34:14 UTC - in response to Message 49422. No. Applications would specifically have to be written to take use SLI but from what I've read from other publishers, it isn't worthwhile and probably would slow down your computations of work units. ID: 49423 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Logan Carr Send message Joined: 12 Aug 15 Posts: 240 Credit: 64,069,811 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications	Message 49424 - Posted: 10 May 2018, 2:09:06 UTC - in response to Message 49423. No. Applications would specifically have to be written to take use SLI but from what I've read from other publishers, it isn't worthwhile and probably would slow down your computations of work units. Ah, good to know. Thank you very much. Cruncher/Learner in progress. ID: 49424 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

PappaLitto Send message Joined: 21 Mar 16 Posts: 513 Credit: 4,673,458,277 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications	Message 49425 - Posted: 10 May 2018, 2:24:31 UTC A short answer of will SLI work.... No. Do you need SLI for science...No. Is two 1070s better than 1... Yes. You can still SLI your cards to play games and BOINC will still treat them as two separate GPUs to compute without changing anything. ID: 49425 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Logan Carr Send message Joined: 12 Aug 15 Posts: 240 Credit: 64,069,811 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications	Message 49432 - Posted: 10 May 2018, 16:15:18 UTC - in response to Message 49425. A short answer of will SLI work.... No. Do you need SLI for science...No. Is two 1070s better than 1... Yes. You can still SLI your cards to play games and BOINC will still treat them as two separate GPUs to compute without changing anything. So you mean that I can have 2 tasks, one per gpu? I wouldn't mind that still Cruncher/Learner in progress. ID: 49432 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Retvari Zoltan Send message Joined: 20 Jan 09 Posts: 2380 Credit: 16,897,957,044 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications	Message 49433 - Posted: 10 May 2018, 16:47:05 UTC - in response to Message 49432. So you mean that I can have 2 tasks, one per gpu? Exactly. However SLI caused some problems back in the GTX 480 era. ID: 49433 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Logan Carr Send message Joined: 12 Aug 15 Posts: 240 Credit: 64,069,811 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications	Message 49439 - Posted: 10 May 2018, 18:04:27 UTC - in response to Message 49433. So you mean that I can have 2 tasks, one per gpu? Exactly. However SLI caused some problems back in the GTX 480 era. Thanks. I just messaged one of my friends on here who has sli just to see how their experience is. Cruncher/Learner in progress. ID: 49439 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

PappaLitto Send message Joined: 21 Mar 16 Posts: 513 Credit: 4,673,458,277 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications	Message 49440 - Posted: 10 May 2018, 18:37:07 UTC - in response to Message 49439. Thanks. I just messaged one of my friends on here who has sli just to see how their experience is. Back when I ran SLI 1070s on my main system (before the 1080ti was out) I did not have any trouble with BOINC. ID: 49440 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Logan Carr Send message Joined: 12 Aug 15 Posts: 240 Credit: 64,069,811 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications	Message 49442 - Posted: 10 May 2018, 20:07:31 UTC - in response to Message 49440. Thanks. I just messaged one of my friends on here who has sli just to see how their experience is. Back when I ran SLI 1070s on my main system (before the 1080ti was out) I did not have any trouble with BOINC. Thank you for telling me, I appreciate it Cruncher/Learner in progress. ID: 49442 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote