You where right, I unset the LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable and the error went away.
libsvml.so is indeed in the same location as libmodeller.so.4
However, it took me back to the initial problem:

 export -p LD_LIBRARY_PATH=
 export -p PYTHONHOME=/usr/lib64/python2.3/
 export MODINSTALL9v5=/****/modeller9v5
 export EXECUTABLE_TYPE9v5=x86_64-intel8
 export -p LIBS_LIB9v5=${MODINSTALL9v5}/modlib/libs.lib
 export KEY_MODELLER9v5=****
 export -p PATH=${PATH}:${MODINSTALL9v5}/bin
## limit  stacksize unlimited

echo "Running model-fast.py"
Running model-fast.py
modpy.sh python model-fast.py > model-fast.log
'import site' failed; use -v for traceback

echo "Running model-parallel.py"
Running model-parallel.py
modpy.sh python model-parallel.py > model-parallel.log
'import site' failed; use -v for traceback
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "model-parallel.py", line 4, in ?
    from modeller.parallel import *
  File "/****/modeller9v5/modlib/modeller/parallel/__init__.py", line 1, in ?
    from job import job
  File "/****/modeller9v5/modlib/modeller/parallel/job.py", line 1, in ?
    import socket, random, os, select
ImportError: No module named socket

On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 5:23 PM, Modeller Caretaker <modeller-care@salilab.org> wrote:
Mauricio Carrillo Tripp wrote:
> This must be a dumb error from my part, but I followed directions to run
> the scripts and now I'm getting a different error on all scripts. Here's
> the output:
...
> ImportError:
> /usr/people/trippm/bin/modeller9v5/lib/x86_64-intel8/libmodeller.so.4:
> undefined symbol: __svml_cosf4

Interesting - that symbol is part of the Intel runtime (libsvml.so).
There should be a copy of that library in the same directory as
libmodeller.so.4. Do you perhaps have the LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable set?
If so, perhaps there is another libsvml.so library in that path (that
will take precedence over the copy bundled with Modeller). Maybe you
have the Intel C or Fortran compilers installed on your computer? If so,
you should either unset the LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable when running
Modeller with Python, or take the paths containing libsvml.so out of
that variable and put them in /etc/ld.so.conf instead.

       Ben Webb, Modeller Caretaker
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