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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Fri Mar 11 2011 - 10:50:41 CST

Daniele,
  That message indicates that there's problem with enabling your
GPU for CUDA. Can you send me the output of these commands?:
  ls -al /usr/local/cuda/lib/libcuda.dylib
  sw_vers
  kextstat | grep "CUDA"

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 04:29:30PM +0100, Passerone, Daniele wrote:
> Dear Developers,
>
> I have installed vmd 1.9 (but the same was valid also for 1.8.7) on my macbookpro with 10.6.6 Macosx.
>
> When starting vmd, I observe the following message on the console:
>
>
> Info) Multithreading available, 2 CPUs detected.
> Info) Creating CUDA device pool and initializing hardware...
> CUDA error: no CUDA-capable device is available, CUDAClearDevice.cu line 62
> Info) Detected 1 available CUDA accelerator:
> Info) [0] GeForce 320M 6 SM_1.2 @ 0.95 GHz, 252MB RAM, KTO, OIO, ZCP
> Info) OpenGL renderer: NVIDIA GeForce 320M OpenGL Engine
> Info) Features: STENCIL MDE CVA MTX NPOT PP PS GLSL(OVF)
> Info) Full GLSL rendering mode is available.
> Info) Textures: 2-D (4096x4096), 3-D (2048x2048x2048), Multitexture (8)
> Info) Dynamically loaded 2 plugins in directory:
> Info) '/Applications/VMD 1.9.app/Contents/vmd/plugins/MACOSXX86/molfile'.
>
> Am I exploiting CUDA, or not?
> Thank you for your help,
>
> Daniele Passerone
> 

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