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From: andrea spitaleri (andrea.spitaleri_at_iit.it)
Date: Sun Jan 25 2015 - 15:45:57 CST

Hi there,
thank to all to make it clear to me. @John indeed I have a G98M [Quadro
NVS 160M] in my laptop.

Just for curiosity, VMD does get advantage to have cuda installed somehow??

Best

and

On 23/01/2015 20:14, John Stone wrote:
> Hi,
> The error message you're getting indicates that you have a
> GPU that is too old to support OptiX. The error says you have
> a GPU with compute capability 1.1, and OptiX needs a GPU with
> compute capability 2.x or higher (e.g. "Fermi" GPUs).
> I assume this machine has one of the old G80 or G92 GPUs
> such as a GeForce 8800 or 9800 (or laptop versions thereof)?
>
> Cheers,
> John
>
> On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 07:37:43PM +0100, andrea spitaleri wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have installed cuda 6.5 on my laptop and I am was trying to use
>> Taychon OptixRender, but I got this fatal error:
>>
>> ERROR) OptiXRenderer) ERROR: Version mismatch (Details: Function
>> "RTresult _rtContextCompile(RTcontext)" caught exception: Program
>> (miss_solid_bg) requires a sm_20 capable device and not all devices meet
>> that requirement (sm_11 present), [5636593]) (OptiXRenderer.C:1167
>> OptiXRenderer) An error occured compiling the context. Rendering is aborted.
>>
>> any clues?
>>
>> and
>>
>>
>> --
>> Andrea Spitaleri PhD
>> D3 - Drug Discovery & Development
>> Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
>> Via Morego, 30 16163 Genova
>> cell: +39 3485188790
>> http://www.iit.it/en/d3-people/andrea-spitaleri.html
>> ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3012-3557 

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Andrea Spitaleri PhD
D3 - Drug Discovery & Development
Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego, 30 16163 Genova
cell: +39 3485188790
http://www.iit.it/en/d3-people/andrea-spitaleri.html
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3012-3557