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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Thu Aug 11 2016 - 14:57:07 CDT

Hi,
  The new Pascal GPUs (GTX 1080 etc) require a bleeding edge version of
OptiX that wasn't yet released when I posted VMD 1.9.3 beta 1. OptiX 4.0
was just released on July 26th, and the next VMD 1.9.3 beta version will
(assuming no unexpected surprises) be compiled against OptiX 4.0 which will
support the new Pascal GPUs:
  https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/952430/optix/optix-4-0-is-released-/
  https://developer.nvidia.com/optix

The OptiX 4.0 release is one of several things I had been waiting for in order
to finalize the VMD 1.9.3 release.

I'll email VMD-L when I post the next beta built against OptiX 4.0.

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 03:08:23PM -0400, Levi Pierce wrote:
> Hello all,
> A I just got a 1080GTX I have CUDA 8 installed (ubuntu 14.04) and driver
> versionA 367.35.A I was trying to use the optix render option and I am
> seeing the following:
> Info) Rendering current scene to '/movies/test2.00011.ppm' ...
> ERROR) OptiXRenderer) ERROR: Launch failed (Details: Function "RTresult
> _rtContextCompile(RTcontext)" caught exception: : error: Encountered a
> CUDA error: createFromMemoryPtx returned (209): No binary for GPU,
> [7340351] [7340352]) (OptiXRenderer.C:1167
> OptiXRenderer) An error occured compiling the context. Rendering is
> aborted.
> OptiXRenderer) An error occured in AS generation. Rendering is aborted.
> Total OptiX rendering time: 0.9 sec
> Info) Rendering complete.
> I am guessing something didn't get built perhaps when I installed vmd?A I
> see the following when it starts up...
> Info) Multithreading available, 24 CPUs detected.
> Info) Free system memory: 27232MB (42%)
> Info) Creating CUDA device pool and initializing hardware...
> Info) Detected 1 available CUDA accelerator:
> Info) [0] GeForce GTX 1080 A 20 SM_6.1 @ 1.73 GHz, 7.9GB RAM, KTO, AE2,
> ZCP
> Info) Detected 1 available TachyonL/OptiX ray tracing accelerator
> Warning) Detected X11 'Composite' extension: if incorrect display occurs
> Warning) try disabling this X server option.A Most OpenGL drivers
> Warning) disable stereoscopic display when 'Composite' is enabled.
> Info) OpenGL renderer: GeForce GTX 1080/PCIe/SSE2
> Info) A Features: STENCIL MSAA(4) MDE CVA MTX NPOT PP PS GLSL(OVFGS)A
> Info) A Full GLSL rendering mode is available.
> Info) A Textures: 2-D (32768x32768), 3-D (16384x16384x16384),
> Multitexture (4)
> Info) Dynamically loaded 2 plugins in directory:
> Info) /usr/local/lib/vmd/plugins/LINUXAMD64/molfile
> Any ideas?A Thanks!
> ~Levi
> --
> --
> Levi Pierce 

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