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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 "----------------------------------------------------------------------------";