From: Jim Phillips (jim_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Fri Mar 11 2016 - 09:45:19 CST
The FX3800 is a compute capability 1.3 card and NAMD 2.11 is compiled for
1.1 or later so I would expect it to work, but we don't have any cards of
this generation (introduced 2009) in service anymore to test.
Jim
On Fri, 11 Mar 2016, Josh Vermaas wrote:
> From reading the release notes, NAMD 2.11 requires a cuda compatibility
> version > 1. This sounds like a pretty old card. Does it meet the
> requirements? That would explain why 2.9 works and 2.11 doesn't, since my
> understanding is that 2.11 is the first release to take advantage of some
> hardware features the older cards didn't have, and started dropping support
> for some older cards.
> -Josh Vermaas
>
> On 03/11/2016 01:47 AM, Greipel.Joachim_at_mh-hannover.de wrote:
>>
>> Updating the driver is not an option: the Nvidia driver is 340.9*6*. This
>> is the newest driver that supports the FX3800. Drivers of the 352.x series
>> do not support the cards.
>>
>> On the system with the two Tesla K20 Cards, which is working, the driver
>> that is installed is 340.9*3*. So the older driver with newer cards work.
>>
>> Joachim Greipel
>>
>> *Von:*Norman Geist [mailto:norman.geist_at_uni-greifswald.de]
>> *Gesendet:* Donnerstag, 10. März 2016 23:44
>> *An:* Greipel, Joachim Dr.
>> *Cc:* namd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>> *Betreff:* AW: vmd-l: NAMD 2.11 Cuda does not work with Quadro FX 3800
>>
>> I would suggest updating the Nvidia driver as 1st thing to try.
>>
>> Norman Geist
>>
>> *Von:*owner-vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu <mailto:owner-vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu>
>> [mailto:owner-vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu] *Im Auftrag von
>> *Greipel.Joachim_at_mh-hannover.de <mailto:Greipel.Joachim_at_mh-hannover.de>
>> *Gesendet:* Donnerstag, 10. März 2016 08:57
>> *An:* vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu <mailto:vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu>
>> *Betreff:* vmd-l: NAMD 2.11 Cuda does not work with Quadro FX 3800
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> yesterday I updated NAMD from 2.9 to 2.11. Unfortunately I got the
>> following Error when trying to run the CUDA enabled Binary on a System with
>> two Quadro FX3800 graphics cards:
>>
>> FATAL ERROR: CUDA error binding lj table to texture on Pe 2 (ceo-01 device
>> 0): invalid texture reference
>>
>> [2] Stack Traceback:
>>
>> [2:0] CmiAbort+0x41 [0xefde44]
>>
>> [2:1] _Z8NAMD_diePKc+0x93 [0x64a6c3]
>>
>> [2:2] _Z13cuda_errcheckPKc+0xec [0x826b6c]
>>
>> [2:3] _Z22build_cuda_force_tablev+0x446 [0x8176e6]
>>
>> [2:4] _Z15_processHandlerPvP11CkCoreState+0x727 [0xd95e07]
>>
>> [2:5] CsdScheduler+0x5ff [0xf0722f]
>>
>> [2:6] [0xefdb90]
>>
>> [2:7] [0xefb293]
>>
>> [2:8] +0x7dc5 [0x7fa183f10dc5]
>>
>> [2:9] clone+0x6d [0x7fa18301228d]
>>
>> [2] Stack Traceback:
>>
>> [2:0] LrtsAbort+0x70 [0xefe524]
>>
>> [2:1] CmiAbortHelper+0x102 [0xefddfd]
>>
>> [2:2] CmiAbort+0x41 [0xefde44]
>>
>> [2:3] _Z8NAMD_diePKc+0x93 [0x64a6c3]
>>
>> [2:4] _Z13cuda_errcheckPKc+0xec [0x826b6c]
>>
>> [2:5] _Z22build_cuda_force_tablev+0x446 [0x8176e6]
>>
>> [2:6] _Z15_processHandlerPvP11CkCoreState+0x727 [0xd95e07]
>>
>> [2:7] CsdScheduler+0x5ff [0xf0722f]
>>
>> [2:8] [0xefdb90]
>>
>> [2:9] [0xefb293]
>>
>> [2:10] +0x7dc5 [0x7fa183f10dc5]
>>
>> [2:11] clone+0x6d [0x7fa18301228d]
>>
>> Until NAMD 2.9 everything used to work fine.
>>
>> Testing of NAMD 2.11 with CUDA on a system with two Tesla K20 Cards also
>> works.
>>
>> System: Linux CentOS 7.2, Nvidia Driver 340.96,
>>
>> Commandline for Testing (Lysozym-Tutorial): namd2 +idlepoll +p4
>> ubq_ws_eq.conf > ubq_ws_eq.p4.gpu.log
>>
>> Graphics Cards: Two Nvidia Quadro FX3800
>>
>> Something must have changed from 2.9 to 2.11 in CUDA Support? Someone any
>> hints?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Joachim
>>
>> --
>>
>> *Dr. rer. nat. Joachim Greipel***
>>
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>>
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>>
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>>
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>>
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>>
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>>
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>>
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>>
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