Installing Tesla C2050 and C1060 on Centos

I have been waiting to get a NVIDIA Fermi GPU to prototype my algorithms, but I was waiting to get an optimized implementation on the Tesla C1060 and then scale up to the Fermi. I got a C2050 and set about installing it on my machine. (note: my host machine is a Lian-Li PC with an integrated NVIDIA nForce 980a/780a (8 cores). 

Installing the C2050 was easy, it has 2 power connections (6-pin and 8-pin). In most of the cases, connecting the 8-pin connector is more than enough. 

After installing the C2050, I had to boot the machine and change the BIOS setting to disable display from external GPUs. The C2050 has a display out and I don't intend to use it now. 

My deviceQuery output:

[vivekv@atstgpu release]$ more deviceQuery.txt
./deviceQuery Starting...
 CUDA Device Query (Runtime API) version (CUDART static linking)
There are 3 devices supporting CUDA
Device 0: "Tesla C2050"
  CUDA Driver Version:                           3.10
  CUDA Runtime Version:                          3.10
  CUDA Capability Major revision number:         2
  CUDA Capability Minor revision number:         0
  Total amount of global memory:                 3220897792 bytes
  Number of multiprocessors:                     14
  Number of cores:                               448
  Total amount of constant memory:               65536 bytes
  Total amount of shared memory per block:       49152 bytes
  Total number of registers available per block: 32768
  Warp size:                                     32
  Maximum number of threads per block:           1024
  Maximum sizes of each dimension of a block:    1024 x 1024 x 64
  Maximum sizes of each dimension of a grid:     65535 x 65535 x 1
  Maximum memory pitch:                          2147483647 bytes
  Texture alignment:                             512 bytes
  Clock rate:                                    1.15 GHz
  Concurrent copy and execution:                 Yes
  Run time limit on kernels:                     No
  Integrated:                                    No
  Support host page-locked memory mapping:       Yes
  Compute mode:                                  Default (multiple host threads can use this device simultaneously)
  Concurrent kernel execution:                   Yes
  Device has ECC support enabled:                No
Device 1: "Tesla C1060"
  CUDA Driver Version:                           3.10
  CUDA Runtime Version:                          3.10
  CUDA Capability Major revision number:         1
  CUDA Capability Minor revision number:         3
  Total amount of global memory:                 4294770688 bytes
  Number of multiprocessors:                     30
  Number of cores:                               240
  Total amount of constant memory:               65536 bytes
  Total amount of shared memory per block:       16384 bytes
  Total number of registers available per block: 16384
  Warp size:                                     32
  Maximum number of threads per block:           512
  Maximum sizes of each dimension of a block:    512 x 512 x 64
  Maximum sizes of each dimension of a grid:     65535 x 65535 x 1
  Maximum memory pitch:                          2147483647 bytes
  Texture alignment:                             256 bytes
  Clock rate:                                    1.30 GHz
  Concurrent copy and execution:                 Yes
  Run time limit on kernels:                     No
  Integrated:                                    No
  Support host page-locked memory mapping:       Yes
  Compute mode:                                  Default (multiple host threads can use this device simultaneously)
  Concurrent kernel execution:                   No
  Device has ECC support enabled:                No
Device 2: "nForce 980a/780a SLI"
  CUDA Driver Version:                           3.10
  CUDA Runtime Version:                          3.10
  CUDA Capability Major revision number:         1
  CUDA Capability Minor revision number:         1
  Total amount of global memory:                 131399680 bytes
  Number of multiprocessors:                     1
  Number of cores:                               8
  Total amount of constant memory:               65536 bytes
  Total amount of shared memory per block:       16384 bytes
  Total number of registers available per block: 8192
  Warp size:                                     32
  Maximum number of threads per block:           512
  Maximum sizes of each dimension of a block:    512 x 512 x 64
  Maximum sizes of each dimension of a grid:     65535 x 65535 x 1
  Maximum memory pitch:                          2147483647 bytes
  Texture alignment:                             256 bytes
  Clock rate:                                    1.20 GHz
  Concurrent copy and execution:                 No
  Run time limit on kernels:                     Yes
  Integrated:                                    Yes
  Support host page-locked memory mapping:       Yes
  Compute mode:                                  Default (multiple host threads can use this device simultaneously)
  Concurrent kernel execution:                   No
  Device has ECC support enabled:                No
deviceQuery, CUDA Driver = CUDART, CUDA Driver Version = 3.10, CUDA Runtime Version = 3.10, NumDevs = 3, Device = Tesla C2050, Device = Tesla 
C1060

PASSED
Press <Enter> to Quit...
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I hope to post the performance comparison of my kernels using the Tesla C2050 sometime soon.