Re: does any body know why GPU Acceleration not work on Windows?

From: Pratik Narain Srivastava (pratik.narain_at_gmail.com)
Date: Fri Jun 28 2019 - 02:18:04 CDT

The counter question is that why on earth are you using something as bad as
windows for research work. Just switch to linux and it works like a charm.

On Fri, 28 Jun, 2019, 10:53 AM Miro Astore, <miro.astore_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> I have had this issue as well, I ran into so many issues with vmd and namd
> on windows that I eventually switched to windows. I am running namd on
> linux and get about 70% utilisation.
>
> Sorry I couldn't be more helpful.
>
> On Fri, 28 Jun 2019 at 15:15, Milad Lagzian <milad.lagzian_at_gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I ask this question before, but unfortunately, no one answered. I have
>> seen that some other guys have the same problem.
>>
>> Why GPU acceleration of NAMD_CUDA does not work on windows OS? No matter
>> what system we use, only around 10% of GPU is engaged in a calculation.
>>
>> There is no problem with the CPU version of NAMD.
>>
>> All drivers have installed and tested including the latest CUDA toolkit
>> and runtime, GPU and ...
>>
>> It seems it is the program issue.
>>
>> Any suggestion?
>>
>

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