I had to update the driver for my GeForce GTX 1050 but when I tried to get the very latest drive it kept giving an error. So I downloaded and installed a less than current one (but still higher than 452.39 and that went OK. I followed the directions slowly and very carefully. When I tested in Pixinsight I saw no noticeable improvement and really didn't see anything in Task Manager. I did not see any graph area for CUDA or 3D but I never use 3D and it might not be set up. In the NVIDIA Control Panel I see CUDA and it show 640 cores. Any suggestions?All instructions for Pixinsight CUDA acceleration I've seen are too old to cover the latest generation of GPUs, so I wrote a tutorial. This should work on anything from GTX900 to RTX4000-series.
Even if you already got it to work using an older version of CUDA, it's a worthwhile update that will give a hefty speed boost with some GPUs.
https://rikutalvio.blogspot.com/2023/02/pixinsight-cuda.html
I had to update the driver for my GeForce GTX 1050 but when I tried to get the very latest drive it kept giving an error. So I downloaded and installed a less than current one (but still higher than 452.39 and that went OK. I followed the directions slowly and very carefully. When I tested in Pixinsight I saw no noticeable improvement and really didn't see anything in Task Manager. I did not see any graph area for CUDA or 3D but I never use 3D and it might not be set up. In the NVIDIA Control Panel I see CUDA and it show 640 cores. Any suggestions?
thanks,
Al
I guess this could be a little dangerous to non techies? Otherwise I am not sure why this is not more widely known. The impact is increadible and a huge time saver. Thanks so much for taking the time to write this up for us.All instructions for Pixinsight CUDA acceleration I've seen are too old to cover the latest generation of GPUs, so I wrote a tutorial. This should work on anything from GTX900 to RTX4000-series.
Even if you already got it to work using an older version of CUDA, it's a worthwhile update that will give a hefty speed boost with some GPUs.
https://rikutalvio.blogspot.com/2023/02/pixinsight-cuda.html
Finally! I've tried some other instructions and it didn't work, but this finally worked and the instructions were nice and clear. Thank you!All instructions for Pixinsight CUDA acceleration I've seen are too old to cover the latest generation of GPUs, so I wrote a tutorial. This should work on anything from GTX900 to RTX4000-series.
Even if you already got it to work using an older version of CUDA, it's a worthwhile update that will give a hefty speed boost with some GPUs.
https://rikutalvio.blogspot.com/2023/02/pixinsight-cuda.html
I am surprised the K80 is that high! You can pick up the 24gb K80 all day under 150 dollars.Does anyone have recent experience with Amazon's GPU-enabled instances? The following instance types, in decreasing rough order of capabilities, have NVIDIA GPUs:
P3: NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPUs
P3: NVIDIA Tesla V100
P2: NVIDIA K80 GPU
G5: NVIDIA A10G Tensor Core GPUs
G5g: NVIDIA T4G Tensor Core
G4dn: NVIDIA T4 Tensor Core GPU
G3: NVIDIA Tesla M60 GPU
I'm planning to do the WBPP calibration as well as the *XTerminator processes on EC2, then do the final few steps on my local PI instance (which does have a GPU, but an older 1080, sometimes it chokes).
Thanks.