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From: jrhau lung (jrhaulung_at_gmail.com)
Date: Thu Nov 17 2016 - 06:47:43 CST

The answer is provided by the VMD CUDA accerlaterate note.
Sorry for this question. and I would need another cheap graphic card.

http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/current/cuda.html

2016-11-17 13:58 GMT+08:00 jrhau lung <jrhaulung_at_gmail.com>:

> Dear VMD friends:
> When running MD simulation using QwikMD, a low GPU usage (well below
> 30%) was found when checked by nvidia-smi -l command in terminal. Is this
> normal? Is there a way to improve the GPU usage and booster up the
> simulation?
>
> sincerely,
>
> Jrhau
>
> The following is the hardward and software in my computer.
> 1.VMD 1.9.3 beta 1 (LINUX_64 OpenGL, CUDA, TachyonL-OptiX
> <http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Development/Download/download.cgi?UserID=&AccessCode=&ArchiveID=1420>
> )
> 2. NAMD 2.11 (Linux-x86_64-multicore-CUDA
> <http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Development/Download/download.cgi?UserID=&AccessCode=&ArchiveID=1399>
> )
> 3. NVIDIA Linux driver (LINUX X64 (AMD64/EM64T) DISPLAY DRIVER 367.48)
> 4. Cuda 8.0 linux toolkit 14.04
> in Xeon E5-2670 + GTX970 desktop computer with OS=Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
>
>