Asus P7F7-E WS Supercomputer - Manual (Page 7)

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Contents
4.6 RAID configurations .................................................................. 4-27
4.6.1
RAID definitions ............................................................ 4-27
4.6.2 Installing Serial ATA hard disks ..................................... 4-28
4.6.3 Setting the RAID item in BIOS ...................................... 4-28
4.6.4 Intel ® Matrix Storage Manager option ROM utility ......... 4-28
4. Creating a RAID driver disk ....................................................... 4-32
4.7.1
Creating a RAID driver disk without entering the OS .... 4-32
4.7.2 Creating a RAID driver disk in Windows ® ...................... 4-32
4.7.3 Installing the RAID driver during
Windows ® OS installation .............................................. 4-33
4.7.4 Using a USB floppy disk drive ....................................... 4-33
Chapter 5: Multiple GPU technology support
5.1 ATI ® CrossFireX™ technology .................................................... 5-1
5.1.1 Requirements .................................................................. 5-1
5.1.2 Before you begin ............................................................. 5-1
5.1.3 Installing CrossFireX graphics cards .............................. 5-2
5.1.4 Installing the device drivers ............................................. 5-3
5.1.5 Enabling the ATI ® CrossFireX™ technology ................... 5-3
5.2 NVIDIA ® SLI™ technology ........................................................... 5-5
5.2.1 Requirements .................................................................. 5-5
5.2.2 Installing two SLI-ready graphics cards .......................... 5-6
5.2.3 Installing three SLI-ready graphics cards ........................ 5-7
5.2.4 Installing the device drivers ............................................. 5-8
5.2.5 Enabling the NVIDIA ® SLI™ technology ......................... 5-8
5.3 NVIDIA ® CUDA™ technology .................................................... 5-11
5.3.1 Requirements .................................................................5-11
5.3.2 Installing CUDA-ready graphics cards ...........................5-11