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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Sun Oct 11 2009 - 22:43:17 CDT

Jim,
  Thanks for the note, I'm glad you got that resolved.

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 09:31:05PM -0500, Jim Parker wrote:
> John,
> Just wanted to update you on this "CUDA error". Per your suggestions to
> check the SDK examples, I ran a few. I had compiled them earlier, and
> since they compiled with no errors, and executed--I didn't check the
> output. Turns out, the card was not being utilized correctly.
>
> Bottomline: updated system software, re-installed the CUDA NVIDIA driver
> (190.18) and no more errors
>
> Cheers,
> --Jim Parker
>
> output of startup screen -- no message related to CUDA error, :)
>
> Info) VMD for LINUX, version 1.8.7 (August 1, 2009)
> Info) http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/
> Info) Email questions and bug reports to 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, 2 CPUs detected.
> Info) Free system memory: 1751MB (86%)
> Info) Detected 1 available CUDA accelerator:
> Info) [0] Quadro NVS 135M 1 SM_1.1 @ 0.80 GHz, 127MB RAM, KTO, OIO
> Info) Creating CUDA device pool and initializing hardware...
> Warning) Detected X11 'Composite' extension: if incorrect display occurs
> Warning) try disabling this optional X server feature.
> Info) OpenGL renderer: Quadro NVS 135M/PCI/SSE2
> Info) Features: STENCIL MSAA(4) MDE CVA MTX NPOT PP PS GLSL(OVF)
> Info) Full GLSL rendering mode is available.
> Info) Textures: 2-D (8192x8192), 3-D (2048x2048x2048), Multitexture (4)
> vmd >
>
> John Stone wrote:
> >Jim,
> > I'm puzzled at the error you're seeing. I'll have to look
> >into this. It's possible that it is failing due to lack of RAM,
> >as I note that the device only reports having 127MB of RAM available,
> >and this would likely be inadequate to do very much with CUDA in VMD
> >anyway. Can you run any of the CUDA SDK examples on this card?
> >
> >Cheers,
> > John Stone
> > johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu
> >
> >On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 07:33:51PM -0500, Jim Parker wrote:
> >
> >>Hello,
> >> I've recently installed VMD on a Ubuntu 8.10 system and followed the
> >>install directions in ig.pdf. I have most things working now, thanks to
> >>help on this site. However, at start up I get the following message.
> >>
> >>Info) VMD for LINUX, version 1.8.7 (August 1, 2009)
> >>Info) http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/
> >>Info) Email questions and bug reports to 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, 2 CPUs detected.
> >>Info) Free system memory: 1346MB (66%)
> >>Info) Detected 1 available CUDA accelerator:
> >>Info) [0] Quadro NVS 135M 1 SM_1.1 @ 0.80 GHz, 127MB RAM, KTO, OIO
> >>Info) Creating CUDA device pool and initializing hardware...
> >>CUDA error: no CUDA-capable device is available, line 62
> >>Warning) Detected X11 'Composite' extension: if incorrect display occurs
> >>Warning) try disabling this optional X server feature.
> >>Info) OpenGL renderer: Quadro NVS 135M/PCI/SSE2
> >>Info) Features: STENCIL MSAA(4) MDE CVA MTX NPOT PP PS GLSL(OVF)
> >>Info) Full GLSL rendering mode is available.
> >>Info) Textures: 2-D (8192x8192), 3-D (2048x2048x2048), Multitexture (4)
> >>vmd >
> >>
> >>The default configure file detects my NVIDIA Quadro NVS 135M card which
> >>is CUDA capable--albeit a low end card (256MB RAM--interesting that VMD
> >>says 127MB...)
> >>and then says that no CUDA device is available...
> >>
> >>There are 2 warnings related to X11 'composite' extension which I don't
> >>know if they are related to the CUDA issue.
> >>
> >>I did check that my CUDA and video drivers are upto date per this thread
> >>http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/mailing_list/vmd-l/13983.html
> >>
> >>I have CUDA 2.3 installed with Driver version 190.18.
> >>
> >>Thanks in advance.
> >>
> >>Cheers,
> >>--Jim Parker
> >>UTSA Physics and Astronomy
> >>
> >>
> >
> > 

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