Changes between Version 28 and Version 29 of AppCoprocessor

Timestamp:

Aug 26, 2010, 3:56:23 PM (15 years ago)

Author:

davea

Comment:

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AppCoprocessor

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 You can develop your application using any programming system, e.g.
 CUDA (for NVIDIA), Brook+ (for ATI) or OpenCL.
+
+== Dealing with GPU memory allocation failures ==
+
+GPUs don't have virtual memory.
+GPU memory allocations may fail because other applications are using the GPU.
+This is typically a temporary condition.
+Rather than exiting with an error in this case, call
+{{{
+boinc_temporary_exit(60);
+}}}
+This will exit the application, and will tell the BOINC client to restart it again in at least 60 seconds.
 
 == Command-line arguments ==