From: Vermaas, Joshua (Joshua.Vermaas_at_nrel.gov)
Date: Mon Aug 21 2017 - 20:18:40 CDT

Hi Dallas,

The short answer is yes. Based on the configure options of both the precompiled Linux binaries and your configure options, the OptiX renderer ought to show up on your list of available renderers. However, this does depend on VMD finding the graphics card at startup. I've bolded the relevant lines that I get at startup.

josh_at_orange:~$ vmd
Info) VMD for LINUXAMD64, version 1.9.3 (August 10, 2017)
Info) http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/
Info) Email questions and bug reports to vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu<mailto:vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu>
Info) Please include this reference in published work using VMD:
Info) Humphrey, W., Dalke, A. and Schulten, K., `VMD - Visual
Info) Molecular Dynamics', J. Molec. Graphics 1996, 14.1, 33-38.
Info) -------------------------------------------------------------
Info) Multithreading available, 20 CPUs detected.
Info) Free system memory: 53GB (84%)
Info) Creating CUDA device pool and initializing hardware...
Info) Detected 1 available CUDA accelerator:
Info) [0] Quadro M5000 16 SM_5.2 @ 1.04 GHz, 7.9GB RAM, KTO, AE2, ZCP
Warning) Detected X11 'Composite' extension: if incorrect display occurs
Warning) try disabling this X server option. Most OpenGL drivers
Warning) disable stereoscopic display when 'Composite' is enabled.
Info) OpenGL renderer: Quadro M5000/PCIe/SSE2
Info) Features: STENCIL MSAA(4) MDE CVA MTX NPOT PP PS GLSL(OVFGS)
Info) Full GLSL rendering mode is available.
Info) Textures: 2-D (16384x16384), 3-D (4096x4096x4096), Multitexture (4)
Info) Detected 1 available TachyonL/OptiX ray tracing accelerator
Info) Compiling 1 OptiX shaders on 1 target GPU...

How does this compare with what you see?

-Josh

On 08/21/2017 07:14 PM, Dallas Warren wrote:

Should the TachyonL-OptiX renderer option be visible in the render
window drop down options with the default installation of vmd?

Here is a screen shot of the drop down options that appear:
https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpbs.twimg.com%2Fmedia%2FDHywOqPUwAE4trS.jpg%3Alarge&data=02%7C01%7CJoshua.Vermaas%40nrel.gov%7C6ce0fe430b8f448f428408d4e8fb1010%7Ca0f29d7e28cd4f5484427885aee7c080%7C0%7C0%7C636389612389865757&sdata=fOvoj3fVd1dZM7k2jMZRtWaMmrJa58wgii43Ku20vU8%3D&reserved=0

My configure options were:

using configure.options: LINUXAMD64 OPENGL OPENGLPBUFFER FLTK TK ACTC
CUDA IMD LIBSBALL XINERAMA XINPUT LIBOPTIX LIBOSPRAY LIBTACHYON VRPN
NETCDF COLVARS TCL PYTHON PTHREADS NUMPY SILENT ICC

FYI, I am looking to generate some 3D videos, following instructions
here: https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ks.uiuc.edu%2FResearch%2Fvmd%2Fminitutorials%2Fvrmovies%2F&data=02%7C01%7CJoshua.Vermaas%40nrel.gov%7C6ce0fe430b8f448f428408d4e8fb1010%7Ca0f29d7e28cd4f5484427885aee7c080%7C0%7C0%7C636389612389865757&sdata=%2FlzvTFXvwgLO%2F9P4JuLo1CZ%2BIDYkfey2wlIoA9WT3bE%3D&reserved=0

Catch ya,

Dr. Dallas Warren
Drug Delivery, Disposition and Dynamics
Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Monash University
381 Royal Parade, Parkville VIC 3052
dallas.warren_at_monash.edu<mailto:dallas.warren_at_monash.edu>
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