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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Sat Oct 26 2013 - 11:56:56 CDT

Hi,
  Yes, that's right. For GeForce 6xx and 7xx GPUs, you need to use
the test builds of VMD 1.9.2 because they use Kepler GPUs which are
newer than the code from VMD 1.9.1 was able to handle.

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 03:49:33PM +0000, Ebert Maximilian wrote:
> Hi Andrei,
>
> OFC you are right. I changed the computer and I totally forgot to install CUDA. But since the the GeForce is new I need to download VMD 1.9.2. apparently to get rid of my last error:
>
> Info) Multithreading available, 8 CPUs detected.
> Info) Creating CUDA device pool and initializing hardware...
> CUDA error: invalid device symbol, CUDAClearDevice.cu line 62
> Info) Detected 1 available CUDA accelerator:
> Info) [0] GeForce GT 750M 2 SM_3.0 @ 0.93 GHz, 2.0GB RAM, KTO, OIO, ZCP
> Info) OpenGL renderer: NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M OpenGL Engine
> Info) Features: STENCIL MDE CVA MTX NPOT PP PS GLSL(OVF)
> Info) Full GLSL rendering mode is available.
> Info) Textures: 2-D (16384x16384), 3-D (2048x2048x2048), Multitexture (8)
> Info) Dynamically loaded 2 plugins in directory:
>
>
> This was already discussed here I think:
> http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/mailing_list/vmd-l/21189.html
>
>
> Max
> On Oct 26, 2013, at 11:26 AM, Andrei Tudor <andrei.tudor.1_at_ulaval.ca<mailto:andrei.tudor.1_at_ulaval.ca>> wrote:
>
> Hi Max,
>
> Have you installed CUDA from nvidia website? https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-downloads
> I am not sure for OSX, as I don't have a mac anymore, but on Linux I had to install CUDA before being able to use it.
>
> Andrei
> ________________________________________
> De : owner-vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu<mailto:owner-vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu> [owner-vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu<mailto:owner-vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu>] de la part de Ebert Maximilian [m.ebert_at_umontreal.ca<mailto:m.ebert_at_umontreal.ca>]
> Date d'envoi : 25 octobre 2013 16:06
> À : <vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu<mailto:vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu>>
> Objet : vmd-l: NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M and CUDA
>
> Hi there,
>
> I have a NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M on Mac OS X and when I start the CUDA version of VMD I get the following message:
>
> Warning) Detected a mismatch between CUDA runtime and GPU driver
> Warning) Check to make sure that GPU drivers are up to date.
> Info) No CUDA accelerator devices available.
> Info) OpenGL renderer: NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M OpenGL Engine
> Info) Features: STENCIL MDE CVA MTX NPOT PP PS GLSL(OVF)
> Info) Full GLSL rendering mode is available.
> Info) Textures: 2-D (16384x16384), 3-D (2048x2048x2048), Multitexture (8)
>
>
> Does anybody has an idea how I can enable CUDA? The GPU is farely new so I don?t understand what the message with old drivers means.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Max
>
> 

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