Hardware
Currently the public student labs are equipped with the following PCs:
- Lenovo ThinkCentre M900z All-in-One Desktop
- Integrated 23.8" anti-glare screen with touch
- 512GB SSD
- 16GB RAM
- 3.4GHz i7-6700 quad core CPU
- Card reader
- Transformer stand (13°-90°)
- Bi-directional display port
- NVIDIA GeForce 930M, 2GB RAM
- No camera, no DVD
Using the NVIDIA Card under Linux
The
GeForce 930M is integrated using the
NVIDIA Optimus technology. The primary video card is the integrated
Intel Iris Graphics.
To to force and application or command to use the NVIDIA card or environment it has to be started through the
optirun command. See below for some examples:
Compile the CUDA Examples
# Copy the examples in /usr/cuda/samples to your home directory because /usr is not writeable
cp -a /usr/cuda/samples ~/samples
cd ~/samples
optirun make
Run a CUDA Sample
optirun ~/samples/bin/release
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