Stupid questions regarding CUDA, OpenCL and Premiere 6

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Kevin Patrick] “So what’s the catch? If this is all it takes, why doesn’t Adobe do it? Is it because Adobe didn’t test the various other ATI configurations?”

https://blogs.adobe.com/alsblog/

[Aindreas Gallagher]

nowww I know what I’m doing, hacked mac mini custom enclosure, bit of soldering…

challenge: accepted.

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[Aindreas Gallagher]

hey – unstable as in crashy?

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[Jeremy Garchow]

[Aindreas Gallagher] “nowww I know what I’m doing, hacked mac mini custom enclosure, bit of soldering…”

It’s not a custom enclosure actually.

I don’t know what you call a hacked driver macintosh. Hackintosh is already taken.

Here’s the enclosure, it’s commercial: https://www.sonnettech.com/product/xmacminiserver.html

The point here is that this is CUDA GPU via Thunderbolt. The GUI is run off of the mac mini internal GPU. This basically separates the CUDA processing from the monitor display (thunderbolt from HDMI/DVI)

I know there’s those that say you can’t run a GPU on thunderbolt, 4X PCIe, blah blah blah…squawk!

I’d say, this is looking very interesting and shows that you might be able to with a bit of work.

Jeremy

[David Cherniack]

The hack means means they haven’t tested the card. The card may fully work or it may cause instability in some cases, though I really haven’t heard of any except when loading 5k still sequences with effects on a 1gB of memory card.

David
AllinOneFilms.com

[Tero Ahlfors]

[Aindreas Gallagher] “hey – unstable as in crashy?”

Unstable as in not updating the video in source or program monitor, not accepting any command inputs and freezing up the Mac (MenuMeter just showed the computer ate all the RAM and processor power) so you can only move the cursor on the screen so you have to hard reset.

[Tero Ahlfors]

[David Cherniack] “The hack means means they haven’t tested the card. The card may fully work or it may cause instability in some cases, though I really haven’t heard of any except when loading 5k still sequences with effects on a 1gB of memory card.”

Yeah. It worked for fine for some footage and situations but when it crashed it crashed HARD. I’m still going to test it out and maybe figure out the limits of it, but when I’m doing something for realsies I’ll probably disable it.

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Tero Ahlfors] “but when I’m doing something for realsies”

Is that totes for realsies, or just for realsies?

Big diff, you know?

[Tero Ahlfors]

[Jeremy Garchow] “Is that totes for realsies, or just for realsies?”

Like totes really realsies! Also I got one of those Mac OS X “hold the power button down to shut down the system” in five languages kernel panics and the error log had something about Premiere and Atiwhateverdriver in it.

[Aindreas Gallagher]

mmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

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