[gmx-users] Installation with CUDA on Debian / gcc 6+

[Mark Abraham]

Hi,

Those are the compilers present on those OS distributions, and have been
tested. Following that is the best path to an easy life. However, you can
often use a gcc version other than the one installed with the OS, which you
would need to do in various cases.

Mark

On Mon, 1 Apr 2019 at 17:08 Jochen Hub <jhub at gwdg.de> wrote:

> Hi Åke,
>
> ah, thanks, we had indeed a CUDA 8.0 on our Debian. So we'll try to
> install CUA 10.1.
>
> But as a side question: Doesn't the supported gcc version strongly
> depend on the Linux distribution, see here:
>
> https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/cuda-installation-guide-linux/index.html
>
> Thanks,
> Jochen
>
>
> Am 01.04.19 um 16:52 schrieb Åke Sandgren:
> > Use a newer version of CUDA?
> >
> > CUDA 10.1 supports GCC 8.
> >
> > On 4/1/19 4:33 PM, Jochen Hub wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> we try to install Gromacs with CUDA support on a Debian system. Cuda
> >> complains about the gcc 6.30 naively installed on Debian, since Cuda
> >> supports gcc only until gcc 5.
> >>
> >> The problem is that Debian removed packages for gcc-5, so installing an
> >> older gcc is more tedious.
> >>
> >> We understand that CUDA support for gcc strongly depends on the Linux
> >> Distribution, see
> >>
> >> https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/cuda-installation-guide-linux/index.html
> >>
> >> Therefore: Is there any workaround to compile Gromacs with CUDA under
> >> Debian with a gcc 6+ ?
> >>
> >> Thanks a lot,
> >> Jochen
> >>
> >>
> >
>
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