CUDA apps time out & fail after several seconds - how to work around this?

Question

I\'ve noticed that CUDA applications tend to have a rough maximum run-time of 5-15 seconds before they will fail and exit out. I realize it\'s ideal to not have CUDA applic

Answer 1

On Windows, the graphics driver has a watchdog timer that kills any shader programs that run for more than 5 seconds. Note that the Xorg/XFree86 drivers don't do this, so one possible workaround is to run the CUDA apps on Linux.

AFAIK it is not possible to disable the watchdog timer on Windows. The only way to get around this on Windows is to use a second card that has no displayed screens on it. It doesn't have to be a Tesla but it must have no active screens.