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From: Cameron Mura (cmura_at_virginia.edu)
Date: Sun May 17 2009 - 19:07:47 CDT

ok, finally -- happily Pythonic VMD on F10!!!:
> struc3:sandbox:$] ./bin/vmd -python
> Info) VMD for LINUXAMD64, version 1.8.7beta3 (May 17, 2009)
> Info) http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/
> ...snip...
> ...snip...
> Info) Detected 1 available CUDA accelerator:
> Info) [0] Quadro FX 4600 12 SM_1.0 @ 1.19 GHz, 767MB RAM, KTO, ZCP
> Info) Creating CUDA device pool and initializing hardware...
> Info) OpenGL renderer: Quadro FX 4600/PCI/SSE2
> Info) Features: STENCIL MSAA(16) MDE CVA MTX NPOT PP PS GLSL(OVF)
> Info) Full GLSL rendering mode is available.
> Info) Textures: 2-D (8192x8192), 3-D (2048x2048x2048), Multitexture (4)
> Info) Starting Python...
> Info) Text interpreter now Python
> >>>
Axel -- you mentioned plans to update your rpm builds for vmd-1.8.7 /
F10, so tomorrow I'll send you my modifications to the vmd src/Makefile
as an f10-specific patch... These modifications mostly involved
utilizing system-wide python2.5, fltk, etc., and also a minor edit of
the location to which the nvidia CUDA stuff (like nvcc) get located by
default (by nvidia's "cudatoolkit" package).

possibly relevant sidenote: there's also a memory mismanagement issue
with the RNG() routine in the default release of Numeric that ships with
F10 (v24.2-11), so I created a patched release (v24.2-12) that
essentially just grafts on some changes to the r11 (basically to make it
behave like Hinsen's v23.8, which plays well with mmtk, and which Marcin
drew to my attention); that patch is at
http://muralab.org/~cmura/ComputerStuff/Linux/python-numeric

Thanks again Axel, John, Marcin, for your help.

Cam