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From: Carlos Simmerling (carlos.simmerling_at_gmail.com)
Date: Thu Apr 15 2021 - 11:52:07 CDT

tachyon/optix seems to work fine on my 1070TI with windows 10

On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 12:22 PM Jason Smith <jason_smith_18_at_sfu.ca> wrote:

> Correct me if I'm wrong, but ray tracing with Optix requires the ray
> tracing cores present on 2000 and later series NVidia GPUs.
>
>
>
> Cheers,
> -
> Jason Smith
> Post-Doctoral Fellow
> Robert N. Young Lab, Simon Fraser University
> 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, BC, V5A-1S6
> Canada
>
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> *From:* owner-vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu <owner-vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu> on behalf of
> John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu>
> *Sent:* Thursday, 15 April 2021 8:20:42 AM
> *To:* Geist, Norman
> *Cc:* Nikhil Maroli; Vmd L
> *Subject:* Re: vmd-l: Rendering using GPU
>
> Hi,
> When VMD starts up, it automatically detects NVIDIA GPUs
> that support CUDA and OptiX (OptiX is the ray tracing development
> framework I used to write the existing lightegith GPU version of Tachyon).
> If you've got up-to-date NVIDIA drivers, you should see a VMD startup
> message
> that looks similar to this:
>
> Info) Detected 3 available TachyonL/OptiX ray tracing accelerators
> Info) Compiling OptiX shaders on 3 target GPUs...
>
> If no OptiX-capable GPUs are seen by VMD, then you won't see the
> various "TachyonL-OptiX" renderers listed in in the File->Render menu.
>
> Best regards,
> John Stone
>
> On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 10:45:48AM +0200, Geist, Norman wrote:
> > Use renderers with optix in their names.
> >
> > Am Donnerstag, den 15-04-2021 um 09:31 schrieb Nikhil Maroli:
> >
> > Dear All,
> > I am having 3 x 1070 with a 2 x 12 core processor. I have
> installed VMD
> > for CUDA versions. When I load VMD I can see it uses 700Mb from the
> > card, however rendering always running on the processor.
> > Can anyone tell me how I use cards for rendering purposes
> > Nikhil
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