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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Wed Jun 24 2009 - 22:17:52 CDT

Hi,
  Most likely you're running too old of an NVIDIA driver.
VMD is compiled for CUDA 2.2, so you need to have a driver that's
new enough for CUDA 2.2. Please see the CUDA acceleration notes here:
  http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/vmd-1.8.7/cuda.html

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 10:44:35AM +0800, Low Soo Mei wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When I start up VMD, amongst the startup messages is this line "no CUDA
> accelerator devices available". But I have an Nvidia GeForce 9600 GT
> graphics card which is CUDA-competent. I installed my Linux x86_64
> binary for vmd 1.8.7 beta 5 with the default configure options, which
> are LINUXAMD64 OPENGL FLTK TK ACTC CUDA IMD LIBSBALL XINPUT LIBTACHYON
> VRPN NETCDF TCL PYTHON PTHREADS NUMPY SILENT .
>
> Is there something I should be doing to get VMD to use my graphics card
> GPU more productively?
>
> When I run BOINC Rosetta on this computer (in its idle time) the CUDA is
> detected and I can see a noticeable speed-up in Rosetta computations.
>
> Thanks for the advice in advance.
>
> Cheers,
> Soo Mei 

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