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From: Passerone, Daniele (Daniele.Passerone_at_empa.ch)
Date: Fri Mar 11 2011 - 12:14:55 CST

Ehm, in the meanwhile I don't get the error anymore.

Indeed, sometimes the error in the past used to happen after quitting a
previous instance of VMD.

However, now that I don't get the error, here is the output of the
requested commands. Thanks:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 32816 Nov 11 23:51
/usr/local/cuda/lib/libcuda.dylib
ProductName: Mac OS X
ProductVersion: 10.6.6
BuildVersion: 10J567
  134 0 0x1bab000 0x2000 0x1000 com.nvidia.CUDA (1.1.0) <4 1>

On 3/11/11 5:50 PM, "John Stone" <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu> wrote:

>
>Daniele,
> That message indicates that there's problem with enabling your
>GPU for CUDA. Can you send me the output of these commands?:
> ls -al /usr/local/cuda/lib/libcuda.dylib
> sw_vers
> kextstat | grep "CUDA"
>
>Cheers,
> John Stone
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
>On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 04:29:30PM +0100, Passerone, Daniele wrote:
>> Dear Developers,
>>
>> I have installed vmd 1.9 (but the same was valid also for 1.8.7) on my
>>macbookpro with 10.6.6 Macosx.
>>
>> When starting vmd, I observe the following message on the console:
>>
>>
>> Info) Multithreading available, 2 CPUs detected.
>> Info) Creating CUDA device pool and initializing hardware...
>> CUDA error: no CUDA-capable device is available, CUDAClearDevice.cu
>>line 62
>> Info) Detected 1 available CUDA accelerator:
>> Info) [0] GeForce 320M 6 SM_1.2 @ 0.95 GHz, 252MB RAM, KTO,
>>OIO, ZCP
>> Info) OpenGL renderer: NVIDIA GeForce 320M OpenGL Engine
>> Info) Features: STENCIL MDE CVA MTX NPOT PP PS GLSL(OVF)
>> Info) Full GLSL rendering mode is available.
>> Info) Textures: 2-D (4096x4096), 3-D (2048x2048x2048), Multitexture
>>(8)
>> Info) Dynamically loaded 2 plugins in directory:
>> Info) '/Applications/VMD
>>1.9.app/Contents/vmd/plugins/MACOSXX86/molfile'.
>>
>> Am I exploiting CUDA, or not?
>> Thank you for your help,
>>
>> Daniele Passerone
>>
>
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