From: Avisek Das (avisekchem_at_gmail.com)
Date: Fri Dec 20 2013 - 12:32:48 CST

Hi John,

That's a relief. I am not doing anything fancy, I just want to run some
analysis scripts. I do not intend to use it for visualization. Please give
me the path to your installation and instructions for using it on Blue
Waters.

Thanks a lot,
Avisek

On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 12:11 PM, John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu> wrote:

> 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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