Notes for running VMD on KTH PDC Cray XC40 'Beskow' =================================================== Use 'salloc' or other commands to allocate nodes for an interactive session, since you may want to run VMD several times while trying out various parallel analysis or rendering scripts. Copy VMD tutorials and scripts to your own directory so you can modify them as you like: cd $SNIC_NOBACKUP rsync -av /cfs/klemming/nobackup/j/johnst/tutorials . Allocate two nodes: salloc --nodes=4 -t 1:00:00 -A edu17.bioexcel Run VMD, using your own copy of one of the scripts: /cfs/klemming/nobackup/j/johnst/local/bin/vmd194 -dispdev text -e $SNIC_NOBACKUP/tutorials/scripts.beskow/testtachyon.vmd /cfs/klemming/nobackup/j/johnst/local/bin/vmd194 -dispdev text -e $SNIC_NOBACKUP/tutorials/scripts.beskow/testmpi.vmd When finished, simply type "exit" in the interactive session created by 'salloc' and the allocation will be terminated. Always be sure to put an "exit" command at the end of all VMD scripts that you intend to run in parallel.