Gromacs 2020.4 compilation with GPU-support on non-GPU nodes

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I modified my code as follows to also include the returns of the cuda-API calls:

#include <cuda.h>
#include <stdio.h>

int main(int argc, char** argv) {
int driver_version = 0, runtime_version = 0;

cudaError_t driver_return = cudaDriverGetVersion(&driver_version);
cudaError_t runtime_return = cudaRuntimeGetVersion(&runtime_version);

printf("Driver Version: %d\n", driver_version);
printf("%s\n", cudaGetErrorString(driver_return));

printf("Runtime Version: %d\n", driver_return);
printf("%s\n", cudaGetErrorString(driver_return));

return 0;
}

After execution on the compute-nodes, I get

$ ./cudaGetDriverVersion
Driver Version: 10010
no error
Runtime Version: 0
no error

This was independent of the cuda version loaded on the node. To me this looks like the cuda runtime is not installed at all, does this make sense?

Thanks for your help

Julian