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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Before I lock out myself from my box...
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On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 6:49 AM, Francisco Ares <frares@gmail.com> wrote:
> Not an answer, but my little knowledge on GPU processing:
>
> AFAIK, CUDA or OpenCL uses idle resources of the GPU, so I guess that you
> are safe even if you don't know (or have ways of) forcing one of them to
> X11.
>
> Good luck and happy new year
> Francisco
>

CUDA will work on all the NVIdia GPUs if the code is written
correctly. CUDA is capable of identifying all cards in the system as
well as each cards architecture & resources. If the program is written
to give him a choice then CUDA can handle getting it to his GTX 560.

Cheers,
Mark