Windows Session 0 Isolation Impact on GPGPU Computing
Tim Child 1 June 20, 2011
1.0 Introduction
With the introduction of Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, and recently Windows 7, GPUapplications that run as Windows Service are impacted by Session 0 Isolation (S0I). For the GPUapplications the impact is severe. S0I prevents any and all GPU applications, via CUDA, OpenCL or in thefuture Direct Compute/C++ AMP (?) from running as a Windows service.The S0I restrictions of a Windows Service are documented in a Microsoft documenthttp://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/sysinternals/Session0Changes.msp and
Application Compatibility: Session 0 Isolation
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb756986.aspx