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gpumodeswitch

 

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Chapter 2.

 

USING GPUMODESWITCH 

gpumodeswitch

 

is a command line utility that runs on Windows or Linux. This chapter 

describes how to to use 

gpumodeswitch

, and the optional Linux boot packages included 

with 

gpumodeswitch

2.1

 

SUPPORTED ENVIRONMENTS 

gpumodeswitch

 can be run in the following environments 

 

Windows 64-bit command prompt 

 

Linux 32/64-bit shell (including Citrix XenServer dom0) 
 

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Note:

 If the server platform hosting the Tesla GPUs does not natively run any of 

the supported environments, we recommend temporarily booting Linux on the 
server; the 

gpumodeswitch

 release package includes bootable Linux images for 

this purpose. These images are described in section 2.4. 

2.2

 

WHAT’S IN THE PACKAG

File 

Description 

gpumodeswitch.exe 

Windows executable 

nvflsh64.sys 

Windows 64-bit driver module 

gpumodeswitch 

Linux executable, also usable on XenServer dom0 

gpumodeswitch.iso 

Bootable Linux ISO image 

gpumodeswitch.zip 

Bootable Linux image for use with USB storage (e.g. a flash key) 

Содержание DU-07764-001

Страница 1: ...DU 07764 001 September 2015 User Guide GPUMODESWITCH...

Страница 2: ...gpumodeswitch DU 07764 001 ii DOCUMENT CHANGE HISTORY DU 07764 001 Version Date Authors Description of Change 1 0 8 30 2015 AC Initial release...

Страница 3: ...hapter 2 Using gpumodeswitch 4 2 1 Supported environments 4 2 2 What s in the package 4 2 3 Running gpumodeswitch 5 2 3 1 Listing current GPU modes 5 2 3 2 Switching GPU modes 6 2 4 Linux bootable ima...

Страница 4: ...1 iv LIST OF FIGURES Figure 1 Connecting gpumodeswitch iso via server remote management 10 Figure 2 Launching an administrator command prompt 11 LIST OF TABLES Table 1 Compute mode settings 1 Table 2...

Страница 5: ...gabytes Tesla GPUs expose a large memory base address register BAR for direct access to the framebuffer from the CPU and other PCI Express devices I O base BAR Disabled The GPU need not consume any le...

Страница 6: ...bled by use of the nvidia smi management tool Table 2 Graphics mode settings The mode of the GPU is established directly at power on from settings stored in the GPU s non volatile memory gpumodeswitch...

Страница 7: ...Introduction gpumodeswitch DU 07764 001 3 1 3 SUPPORTED PRODUCTS At the time of writing gpumodeswitch is supported on the following products Tesla M60 Tesla M6...

Страница 8: ...erver dom0 Note If the server platform hosting the Tesla GPUs does not natively run any of the supported environments we recommend temporarily booting Linux on the server the gpumodeswitch release pac...

Страница 9: ...n All Rights Reserved PLX 8747h 10B5 8747 10B5 8747 H NRM S 00 B 81 PCI D 00 F 00 Adapter PLX 8747h 10B5 8747 10B5 8747 H NRM S 00 B 81 PCI D 00 F 00 Identifying EEPROM EEPROM ID 47 8747 uChip 25AA320...

Страница 10: ...2 10DE 113A H 82 SP16 S 00 B 84 PCI D 00 F 00 GPU Mode Graphics 2 3 2 Switching GPU modes To switch a GPU s mode use the gpumode command gpumode graphics switches to graphics mode gpumode compute swit...

Страница 11: ...updated from version 84 04 7C 00 00 to 84 04 7C 00 00 A reboot is required for the update to take effect InfoROM image updated successfully Tesla M60 10DE 13F2 10DE 113A H 82 SP16 S 00 B 84 PCI D 00...

Страница 12: ...0 F 00 2 Tesla M60 10DE 13F2 10DE 113A H 82 SP16 S 00 B 84 PCI D 00 F 00 3 PLX 8747h 10B5 8747 10B5 8747 H NRM S 00 B 85 PCI D 00 F 00 4 PLX 8747h 10B5 8747 10B5 8747 H 86 SP8 S 00 B 87 PCI D 00 F 00...

Страница 13: ...bundled Linux bootable images see section 2 4 the system boots into a read only file system Log files can be generated by using the outfilepath option to write the log files into tmp The log file summ...

Страница 14: ...te management The ISO image boots to a Linux shell prompt from which gpumodeswitch can be run directly Refer to section 2 3 for instructions on running gpumodeswitch from the shell 2 4 2 Booting from...

Страница 15: ...cmd program icon and selecting Run as administrator Figure 2 Launching an administrator command prompt In the command prompt change to the USB drive by typing its drive letter and then hitting return...

Страница 16: ...the irreparable damage to your graphics adapter it is necessary to unload the NVIDIA kernel driver first rmmod nvidia root xenserver 2 5 1 1 Linux On Linux halt any services using the GPU then use rm...

Страница 17: ...ion of otherwise under any patent rights of NVIDIA Corporation Specifications mentioned in this publication are subject to change without notice This publication supersedes and replaces all other info...

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