Re: [AMBER-Developers] Do we still need to support CUDA versions 7.5 and 8?

From: David Cerutti <dscerutti.gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2021 15:59:40 -0400

I did do some things to try and get around the CUDA 8 limitation, but I
still recommend CUDA 9 or later. It's not a big change that I needed to
make, and I think it is done, but even last year when we addressed this
issue I did not have ready access to a CUDA 8 installation to test against.


On Sat, Apr 3, 2021 at 2:35 PM Scott Le Grand <varelse2005.gmail.com> wrote:

> I think requiring cuda 8 or later is reasonable, but cmake is still not
> quite ready for prime time disruption of configure. It's getting there
> though.
>
> On Sat, Apr 3, 2021, 08:53 David Cerutti <dscerutti.gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > The same cmake guru would also, hopefully, know how to make sure
> mdgx.cuda,
> > as opposed to mdgx CPU that gets called mdgx.cuda, builds with cmake.
> > Currently the ./configure route is needed to build the CUDA version.
> >
> > Dave
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Apr 3, 2021 at 10:01 AM David A Case <david.case.rutgers.edu>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Hi everyone:
> > >
> > > Dave Cerutti's mdgx cuda code appears to require CUDA 9 or greater.
> I'm
> > > trying to get a feel for the need to continue to support CUDA 7.5 and
> 8.
> > >
> > > Do any of you still use those versions, perhaps on some legacy
> > > machine? Are there other reasons to keep allowing these?
> > >
> > > Are there cmake gurus who know how to disable building mdgx_cuda if an
> > > old version of NVCC is found?
> > >
> > > ..thx...dac
> > >
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