DESCRIPTION
VMD is a molecular visualization program for displaying, animating, and analyzing large biomolecular systems using 3-D graphics and built-in scripting. VMD supports computers running Mac OS X, UNIX, or Windows, is distributed free of charge, and includes source code.
WHAT'S NEW
Version 1.8.7: - User documentation updates
- Minor improvements and corrections to the VMD User's Guide, added documentation for new commands and environment variables.
- Added documentation for new volmap ligand options, "measure pbc2onc", and "measure pbcneighbors"
- Performance Improvements
- Added support for NVIDIA CUDA on MacOS X, and both 32-bit and 64-bit Linux. VMD supports CUDA acceleration for electrostatics calculations (e.g. "volmap coulomb", for both direct summation and multilevel summation method) and for acceleration of molecular orbital display.
- Added support for multi-core processors to the Windows versions of VMD and the included Tachyon ray tracer
- Tachyon's ambient occlusion lighting performance has been significantly improved with respect to the number of ambient occlusion samples taken. The new version operates multiplicatively with the number of antialiasing samples, so that if one uses 12 antialiasing samples, only about 8 to 16 ambient occlusion samples are needed for good shading results.
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REQUIREMENTS
PowerPC: Mac OS X 10.4.7 or later.
Intel: Mac OS X 10.5 or later.
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