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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Mon Sep 17 2012 - 10:21:06 CDT

Hi,
  The same technique should work fine both for VMD 1.9 and for VMD 1.9.1.
Perhaps something is preventing your environment variable from being
propagated into VMD?

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 12:48:38PM +1000, Joakim Swedberg wrote:
> Dear VMD users,
>
> I'm trying to disable CUDA in VMD 1.9.1 so I can run many parallel
> processes. I have been following the previously posted instructions on the
> mailing list for VMD 1.9
> (http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/mailing_list/vmd-l/19227.html) by
> putting the commands bellow in the vmd.csh and vmd.sh files, presuming
> that /bin/bash is the /bin/vmd.sh file
>
>
>
> /bin/csh syntax:
>
> setenv VMDNOCUDA 1
>
>
>
> /bin/bash syntax:
>
> export VMDNOCUDA=1
>
>
>
> It seemed to work fine before on VMD 1.9 using the above commands, but now
> in VMD 1.9.1., VMD is still creating a CUDA device pool and crashes when I
> run several VMD processes.
>
> Am I not doing it right?
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
>
>
> Joakim Swedberg
> BSc (Honours) PhD
>
> Research Officer
>
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