From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Fri Dec 20 2013 - 12:11:35 CST

Hi,
  I already have a VMD installation on Blue Waters, so
there's no need for you to install your own unless you are
customizing it in some way. My installation also adds support
for BW-specific capabilities such as MPI, OpenGL off-screen rendering
via Pbuffers, and GPU-accelerated ray tracing using OptiX.

Are you planning to run VMD solely for analysis, or do you want
to do visualization on BW as well? The way you run the BW version
of VMD depends on what you're trying to accomplish. I can give you
examples if you tell me more about what you want to do with VMD on BW.

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 11:55:25AM -0600, Avisek Das wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I installed VMD on Blue Waters supercomputer at NCSA. The installation
> went fine but I am having difficulty launching the program (in text mode).
> I kept getting the following error
>
> "Unknown colorls variable `mh'."
>
> I contacted the support staff but they said that there was nothing they
> could do about it and I should take this up to the developers.
>
> Please help me fix this problem.
>
> Thanks,
> Avisek

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