From: Gianluca Interlandi (gianluca_at_u.washington.edu)
Date: Wed Sep 18 2013 - 15:33:38 CDT

Dear Axel,

Thank you for your help! Just a clarification. In my linux installation,
all nvidia libraries are installed in /usr/lib64/. I could use your list
to select them or run the nvidia installer with "--list" or is there a way
to force the nvidia installer to extract its files into a specific
directory withour messing up the current installation?

I don't use modules, but from your explanation it should be enough to
simply set LD_LIBRARY_PATH whenever I log in remotely.

Thanks,

      Gianluca

> here is an alternate version that has worked for me quite well:
> i take the shared libraries installed by the nvidia driver on the
> local machine and copy them to a directory on the remote machine and
> then set LD_LIBRARY_PATH so that this directory comes *first*. we use
> this with several versions of the nvidia driver on our clusters and it
> works nicely. people just load the nvidia-glx module when they have an
> nvidia card on their desktop and remote display of VMD is working
> nicely. details below.
>
> [akohlmey_at_login4 ~]$ /bin/ls -l /opt/apps/nvidia-glx-310.44/
> total 85508
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 install install 10 May 2 08:01 libGL.so -> libGL.so.1
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 install install 15 May 2 07:58 libGL.so.1 -> libGL.so.310.44
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 install install 1099504 Mar 27 18:10 libGL.so.310.44
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 install install 21296 Mar 27 18:18 libOpenCL.so.1.0.0
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 install install 12 May 2 08:01 libcuda.so -> libcuda.so.1
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 install install 17 May 2 08:00 libcuda.so.1 ->
> libcuda.so.310.44
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 install install 10322958 Mar 27 18:25 libcuda.so.310.44
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 install install 15 May 2 08:01 libnvcuvid.so ->
> libnvcuvid.so.1
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 install install 20 May 2 08:00 libnvcuvid.so.1 ->
> libnvcuvid.so.310.44
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 install install 2363440 Mar 27 18:57 libnvcuvid.so.310.44
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 install install 18 May 2 08:01 libnvidia-cfg.so ->
> libnvidia-cfg.so.1
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 install install 23 May 2 08:00 libnvidia-cfg.so.1
> -> libnvidia-cfg.so.310.44
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 install install 148960 Mar 27 18:56 libnvidia-cfg.so.310.44
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 install install 27749808 Mar 27 18:57 libnvidia-compiler.so.310.44
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 install install 21 May 2 08:01 libnvidia-encode.so
> -> libnvidia-encode.so.1
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 install install 26 May 2 08:00
> libnvidia-encode.so.1 -> libnvidia-encode.so.310.44
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 install install 135648 Mar 27 18:57 libnvidia-encode.so.310.44
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 install install 36543952 Mar 27 18:09 libnvidia-glcore.so.310.44
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 install install 17 May 2 08:01 libnvidia-ml.so ->
> libnvidia-ml.so.1
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 install install 22 May 2 08:00 libnvidia-ml.so.1
> -> libnvidia-ml.so.310.44
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 install install 394280 Mar 27 18:56 libnvidia-ml.so.310.44
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 install install 21 May 2 08:01 libnvidia-opencl.so
> -> libnvidia-opencl.so.1
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 install install 26 May 2 08:00
> libnvidia-opencl.so.1 -> libnvidia-opencl.so.310.44
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 install install 8613332 Mar 27 18:18 libnvidia-opencl.so.310.44
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 install install 11736 Mar 27 18:13 libnvidia-tls.so.310.44
> drwxr-xr-x 2 install install 4096 May 2 08:00 tls
>
> [akohlmey_at_login4 ~]$ module display nvidia-glx/310.44
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> /opt/apps/modulefiles/nvidia-glx/310.44:
>
> module-whatis Nvidia OpenGL and GLX runtime libraries
> prepend-path LD_LIBRARY_PATH /opt/apps/nvidia-glx-310.44
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Gianluca
>>
>> -----------------------------------------------------
>> Gianluca Interlandi, PhD gianluca_at_u.washington.edu
>> +1 (206) 685 4435
>> http://artemide.bioeng.washington.edu/
>>
>> Research Scientist at the Department of Bioengineering
>> at the University of Washington, Seattle WA U.S.A.
>> http://healthynaturalbaby.org
>> -----------------------------------------------------
>
>
>
> --
> Dr. Axel Kohlmeyer akohlmey_at_gmail.com http://goo.gl/1wk0
> International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste. Italy.
>

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Gianluca Interlandi, PhD gianluca_at_u.washington.edu
                     +1 (206) 685 4435
                     http://artemide.bioeng.washington.edu/

Research Scientist at the Department of Bioengineering
at the University of Washington, Seattle WA U.S.A.
                     http://healthynaturalbaby.org
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