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authorMahmoud <[email protected]>2019-08-22 12:47:51 -0400
committerMahmoud <[email protected]>2019-08-22 12:47:51 -0400
commitf946986a2337df4cd96ac6ec0956ac25644fa1a9 (patch)
tree4e97d74e95904ff4d00bb54fbfa1037818fc46fc /setup_environment
parent56c52cf6c4b369e9fd05759e9b16ea37ff6e332c (diff)
parent2f5b3332c9b9b3fa9fea43d61276bddb24aa7df2 (diff)
Merge branch 'dev' of https://github.com/purdue-aalp/gpgpu-sim_distribution into dev-private
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@@ -148,19 +148,15 @@ fi
echo "";
echo "----------------------------------------------------------------------------";
echo "INFO - If you only care about PTX execution, ignore this message. GPGPU-Sim supports PTX execution in modern CUDA."
-if [ $CUDA_VERSION_NUMBER -gt 4200 ]; then
- echo "If you want to run PTXPLUS (sm_1x SASS) with a modern card configuration, the apps and simulator must be compiled with CUDA 4.2."
- echo "You can still run a PASCAL configuration when compiling with 4.2 by setting the \$PTXAS_CUDA_INSTALL_PATH directory environment variable."
-else
- echo "If you want to run PTXPLUS (sm_1x SASS) with a modern card configuration - set the envronment variable"
- echo "\$PTXAS_CUDA_INSTALL_PATH to point a CUDA version compabible with your card configurations (i.e. 8+ for PASCAL, 9+ for VOLTA etc..)"
- echo "For example: \"export \$PTXAS_CUDA_INSTALL_PATH=/usr/local/cuda-9.1\""
-fi
+echo "If you want to run PTXPLUS (sm_1x SASS) with a modern card configuration - set the envronment variable"
+echo "\$PTXAS_CUDA_INSTALL_PATH to point a CUDA version compabible with your card configurations (i.e. 8+ for PASCAL, 9+ for VOLTA etc..)"
+echo "For example: \"export \$PTXAS_CUDA_INSTALL_PATH=/usr/local/cuda-9.1\""
+echo ""
echo "The following text describes why:";
echo "If you are using PTXPLUS, only sm_1x is supported and it requires that the app and simulator binaries are compiled in CUDA 4.2 or less.";
echo "The simulator requires it since CUDA headers desribe struct sizes in the exec which change from gen to gen.";
echo "The apps require 4.2 because new versions of CUDA tools have dropped parsing support for generating sm_1x";
-echo "When running using modern config (i.e. pascal) and PTXPLUS with CUDA 4.2, the \$PTXAS_CUDA_INSTALL_PATH env variable is required to get proper register usage"
+echo "When running using modern config (i.e. volta) and PTXPLUS with CUDA 4.2, the \$PTXAS_CUDA_INSTALL_PATH env variable is required to get proper register usage"
echo "(and hence occupancy) using a version of CUDA that knows the register usage on the real card."
echo "";
echo "----------------------------------------------------------------------------";