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From: Josh Vermaas (joshua.vermaas_at_gmail.com)
Date: Thu Nov 19 2020 - 11:15:29 CST

Hi Zhu,

Which version did you try installing? I'm betting its the new alpha with
AVX-512 goodies, which indeed would have issues if the CPU doesn't have
AVX-512 support. If you need to run some analysis before John can answer
more definitively, I'd try installing 1.9.3.

-Josh

On 11/19/20 9:33 AM, Zhu Liang wrote:
> Hi, 
>
> I tried to install several text versions of vmd on Linux.
> The installation was smooth, however when I type “vmd” to run, it
> displays the following message instead: 
>
> Please verify that both the operating system and the processor support
> Intel(R) AVX512ER and AVX512PF instructions.
>
>
> Can anyone help me with this? Tried different versions, the message is
> the same.
>
> My Linux and CPU informations are the following:
>
> NAME="CentOS Linux"
> VERSION="7 (Core)"
> ID="centos"
> ID_LIKE="rhel fedora"
> VERSION_ID="7"
> PRETTY_NAME="CentOS Linux 7 (Core)"
> ANSI_COLOR="0;31"
> CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:centos:centos:7"
> HOME_URL="https://www.centos.org/"
> BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.centos.org/"
>
> CENTOS_MANTISBT_PROJECT="CentOS-7"
> CENTOS_MANTISBT_PROJECT_VERSION="7"
> REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT="centos"
> REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT_VERSION="7"
>
> Architecture:          x86_64
> CPU op-mode(s):        32-bit, 64-bit
> Byte Order:            Little Endian
> CPU(s):                16
> On-line CPU(s) list:   0-15
> Thread(s) per core:    2
> Core(s) per socket:    8
> Socket(s):             1
> NUMA node(s):          1
> Vendor ID:             GenuineIntel
> CPU family:            6
> Model:                 85
> Model name:            Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7820X CPU @ 3.60GHz
> Stepping:              4
> CPU MHz:               1199.926
> CPU max MHz:           4500.0000
> CPU min MHz:           1200.0000
> BogoMIPS:              7200.00
> Virtualization:        VT-x
> L1d cache:             32K
> L1i cache:             32K
> L2 cache:              1024K
> L3 cache:              11264K
> NUMA node0 CPU(s):     0-15
> Flags:                 fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep
> mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht
> tm pbe syscall nx pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc art arch_perfmon pebs
> bts rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc aperfmperf eagerfpu pni
> pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 sdbg fma cx16 xtpr
> pdcm pcid dca sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic movbe popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes
> xsave avx f16c rdrand lahf_lm abm 3dnowprefetch epb cat_l3 cdp_l3
> intel_pt ssbd mba ibrs ibpb stibp tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept
> vpid fsgsbase tsc_adjust bmi1 hle avx2 smep bmi2 erms invpcid rtm cqm
> mpx rdt_a avx512f avx512dq rdseed adx smap clflushopt clwb avx512cd
> avx512bw avx512vl xsaveopt xsavec xgetbv1 cqm_llc cqm_occup_llc
> cqm_mbm_total cqm_mbm_local dtherm ida arat pln pts hwp hwp_act_window
> hwp_epp hwp_pkg_req md_clear spec_ctrl intel_stibp flush_l1d
>
>
> Thanks,
> Zhu
>