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VMD is a molecular visualization program for displaying, animating, and analyzing large biomolecular systems using 3-D graphics and built-in scripting. Visit the VMD website for complete information and documentation.

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Version 1.9.1 (2012-02-04) Platforms:

We recommend that all users upgrade to VMD 1.9.1

• Source Code
• LINUX OpenGL, CUDA (Linux (32-bit, RHEL4 or later) with CUDA)
• LINUX_64 OpenGL, CUDA (Linux (64-bit Intel/AMD x86) with CUDA)
• LINUX PPC64 Text-mode (Linux PowerPC (64-bit) Text-mode)
• MacOS X OpenGL, CUDA (32-bit Intel x86) (Apple MacOS-X 10.5.x or later with CUDA)
• MacOS X OpenGL (32-bit Intel x86) (Apple MacOS-X 10.5.x or later)
• MacOS X OpenGL (PowerPC) (Apple MacOS-X 10.4.7 or later)
• SOLARISX86_64 OpenGL (Sun Solaris 10 (64-bit x86) with OpenGL)
• Windows OpenGL, CUDA (Windows XP/Vista/7 (32-bit) with OpenGL and CUDA)
• Windows OpenGL (Microsoft Windows XP/Vista/7 (32-bit) using OpenGL)
• Unofficial (unsupported) VMD builds (Experimental builds for MacOS X)

Version 1.9 (2011-03-14) Platforms:

We recommend that all users upgrade to VMD 1.9

• Source Code
• AIX6_64 Text-mode (IBM AIX 6 (64-bit Power) Text-mode)
• Blue Waters Text-mode, OpenCL (NCSA/IBM Blue Waters (64-bit Power7) Text-mode, OpenCL)
• LINUX OpenGL, CUDA (Linux (32-bit, RHEL4 or later) with CUDA)
• LINUX_64 OpenGL, CUDA (Linux (64-bit Intel/AMD x86) with CUDA)
• LINUX PPC64 Text-mode (Linux PowerPC (64-bit) Text-mode)
• MacOS X OpenGL, CUDA (32-bit Intel x86) (Apple MacOS-X 10.5.x or later with CUDA)
• MacOS X OpenGL (PowerPC) (Apple MacOS-X 10.4.7 or later)
• SOLARISX86_64 OpenGL (Sun Solaris 10 (64-bit x86) with OpenGL)
• Windows OpenGL, CUDA (Windows XP/Vista/7 (32-bit) with OpenGL and CUDA)
• Windows OpenGL (Microsoft Windows XP/Vista/7 (32-bit) using OpenGL)

Version 1.8.7 (2009-08-01) Platforms:

We recommend that all users upgrade to VMD 1.8.7

• Source Code
• AIX6_64 Text-mode (IBM AIX 6 (64-bit Power) Text-mode)
• LINUX OpenGL, CUDA (Linux (32-bit, RHEL4 or later) with CUDA)
• LINUX_64 OpenGL, CUDA (Linux (64-bit Intel/AMD x86) with CUDA)
• LINUX PPC64 Text-mode (Linux PowerPC (64-bit) Text-mode)
• MacOS X OpenGL, CUDA (32-bit Intel x86) (Apple MacOS-X 10.5.x or later with CUDA)
• MacOS X OpenGL (32-bit Intel x86) (Apple MacOS-X (10.4.7 or later) with hardware OpenGL (native bundle))
• MacOS X OpenGL (PowerPC) (Apple MacOS-X 10.4.7 or later)
• SOLARISX86_64 OpenGL (Sun Solaris 10 (64-bit x86) with OpenGL)
• SOLARIS_64 OpenGL (Sun Solaris 10 (64-bit UltraSPARC) with hardware OpenGL)
• Windows OpenGL, CUDA (Windows XP/Vista/7 (32-bit) with OpenGL and CUDA)
• Windows OpenGL (Microsoft Windows XP/Vista/7 (32-bit) using OpenGL)
• Unofficial (unsupported) VMD builds contributed by the community (RPMs for Linux, experimental builds for MacOS X, VMD extension packages, ...)

Version 1.8.6 (2007-04-07) Platforms:

We recommend that all users upgrade to VMD 1.8.6

• Source Code
• AIX5 OpenGL (IBM AIX 5 with hardware OpenGL)
• AIX5_64 OpenGL (IBM AIX 5 (64-bit Power) with hardware OpenGL)
• IRIX6 OpenGL (SGI IRIX 6.5.20 using hardware OpenGL + CAVE)
• IRIX6_64 OpenGL (SGI IRIX 6.5.20 (64-bit) using hardware OpenGL)
• LINUX IA64 OpenGL (Linux (64-bit Intel Itanium) with hardware OpenGL)
• LINUX OpenGL (Linux (32-bit, RHEL4 or later))
• LINUX_64 OpenGL (Linux (64-bit x86))
• MacOS X OpenGL (32-bit Intel x86) (Apple MacOS-X (10.4.7 or later) with hardware OpenGL (native bundle))
• MacOS X OpenGL (PowerPC) (Apple MacOS-X 10.4.7 or later)
• SOLARIS OpenGL (Sun Solaris 9 (UltraSPARC) with harware OpenGL)
• SOLARIS_64 OpenGL (Sun Solaris 10 (64-bit UltraSPARC) with hardware OpenGL)
• Windows OpenGL (Microsoft Windows XP/Vista/7 (32-bit) using OpenGL)
• Unofficial (unsupported) VMD builds contributed by the community (RPMs for Linux, experimental builds for MacOS X, VMD extension packages, ...)

Version 1.8.5 (2006-08-25) Platforms:

We recommend that all users upgrade to VMD 1.8.5

• Source Code
• AIX5 OpenGL (IBM AIX 5 with hardware OpenGL)
• AIX5_64 OpenGL (IBM AIX 5 (64-bit Power) with hardware OpenGL)
• IRIX6 OpenGL (SGI IRIX 6.5.20 using hardware OpenGL + CAVE)
• IRIX6_64 OpenGL (SGI IRIX 6.5.20 (64-bit) using hardware OpenGL)
• LINUX IA64 OpenGL (Linux (64-bit Intel Itanium) with hardware OpenGL)
• LINUX OpenGL (Linux (32-bit, RHEL4 or later))
• LINUX_64 OpenGL (Linux (64-bit x86))
• MacOS X OpenGL (32-bit Intel x86) (Apple MacOS-X (10.4.7 or later) with hardware OpenGL (native bundle))
• MacOS X OpenGL (PowerPC) (Apple MacOS-X 10.4.7 or later)
• SOLARIS OpenGL (Sun Solaris 9 (UltraSPARC) with harware OpenGL)
• SOLARIS_64 OpenGL (Sun Solaris 10 (64-bit UltraSPARC) with hardware OpenGL)
• Windows OpenGL (Microsoft Windows XP/Vista/7 (32-bit) using OpenGL)
• Unofficial (unsupported) VMD builds contributed by the community (RPMs for Linux, experimental builds for MacOS X, VMD extension packages, ...)

Version 1.8.4 (2006-04-16) Platforms:

We recommend that all users upgrade to VMD 1.8.5

• Source Code
• AIX5 OpenGL (IBM AIX 5 with hardware OpenGL)
• AIX5_64 OpenGL (IBM AIX 5 (64-bit Power) with hardware OpenGL)
• IRIX6 OpenGL (SGI IRIX 6.5.20 using hardware OpenGL + CAVE)
• IRIX6_64 OpenGL (SGI IRIX 6.5.20 (64-bit) using hardware OpenGL)
• LINUX IA64 OpenGL (Linux (64-bit Intel Itanium) with hardware OpenGL)
• LINUX OpenGL (Linux (32-bit, RHEL4 or later))
• LINUX_64 OpenGL (Linux (64-bit x86))
• MacOS X OpenGL (32-bit Intel x86) (Apple MacOS-X (10.4.7 or later) with hardware OpenGL (native bundle))
• MacOS X OpenGL (PowerPC) (Apple MacOS-X (10.3.5 or later) with hardware OpenGL (native bundle))
• SOLARIS OpenGL (Sun Solaris 9 (UltraSPARC) with harware OpenGL)
• SOLARIS_64 OpenGL (Sun Solaris 10 (64-bit UltraSPARC) with hardware OpenGL)
• Windows OpenGL (Microsoft Windows XP/Vista/7 (32-bit) using OpenGL)

Version 1.8.3 (2005-02-15) Platforms:

We recommend that all users upgrade to the newer VMD 1.8.4 release

• Source Code
• IRIX6 OpenGL (SGI IRIX 6.5.20 using hardware OpenGL + CAVE)
• IRIX6_64 OpenGL (SGI IRIX 6.5.20 (64-bit) using hardware OpenGL)
• LINUX OpenGL (Linux (32-bit, RHEL4 or later))
• LINUX_64 OpenGL (Linux (64-bit x86))
• MacOS X OpenGL (PowerPC) (Apple MacOS-X (10.3.5 or later) with hardware OpenGL (native bundle))
• SOLARIS OpenGL (Sun Solaris 9 (UltraSPARC) with harware OpenGL)
• SOLARIS_64 OpenGL (Sun Solaris 10 (64-bit UltraSPARC) with hardware OpenGL)
• Windows OpenGL (Microsoft Windows XP/Vista/7 (32-bit) using OpenGL)

Version 1.8.2 (2003-12-05) Platforms:

Use the "OpenGL" versions of VMD unless you have a specific need to use the Mesa version.

• Source Code
• AIX4 OpenGL (IBM AIX 4.x with hardware OpenGL)
• HPUX11 Mesa (HP HP-UX 11.0 using Mesa)
• HPUX11 OpenGL (HP HP-UX 11.0 using hardware OpenGL)
• IRIX6 OpenGL (SGI IRIX 6.5.20 using hardware OpenGL + CAVE)
• IRIX6_64 OpenGL (SGI IRIX 6.5.20 (64-bit) using hardware OpenGL)
• LINUX OpenGL (Linux (32-bit, RHEL4 or later))
• MacOS X OpenGL (PowerPC) (Apple MacOS-X (10.3.5 or later) with hardware OpenGL (native bundle))
• SOLARIS OpenGL (Sun Solaris 9 (UltraSPARC) with harware OpenGL)
• SOLARIS_64 OpenGL (Sun Solaris 10 (64-bit UltraSPARC) with hardware OpenGL)
• TRU64 Mesa (HP Tru64 Unix with Mesa)
• TRU64 OpenGL (HP Tru64 Unix with hardware OpenGL)
• Windows OpenGL (Microsoft Windows XP/Vista/7 (32-bit) using OpenGL)

Version 1.8.1 (2003-06-15) Platforms:

Use the "OpenGL" versions of VMD unless you have a specific need to use the Mesa version.

• Source Code
• AIX4 OpenGL (IBM AIX 4.x with hardware OpenGL)
• HPUX11 Mesa (HP HP-UX 11.0 using Mesa)
• HPUX11 OpenGL (HP HP-UX 11.0 using hardware OpenGL)
• IRIX6 OpenGL (SGI IRIX 6.5.20 using hardware OpenGL + CAVE)
• IRIX6_64 OpenGL (SGI IRIX 6.5.20 (64-bit) using hardware OpenGL)
• LINUX OpenGL (Linux (32-bit, RHEL4 or later))
• MacOS X OpenGL (PowerPC) (Apple MacOS-X (10.3.5 or later) with hardware OpenGL (native bundle))
• SOLARIS OpenGL (Sun Solaris 9 (UltraSPARC) with harware OpenGL)
• SOLARIS_64 OpenGL (Sun Solaris 10 (64-bit UltraSPARC) with hardware OpenGL)
• TRU64 Mesa (HP Tru64 Unix with Mesa)
• TRU64 OpenGL (HP Tru64 Unix with hardware OpenGL)
• Windows OpenGL (Microsoft Windows XP/Vista/7 (32-bit) using OpenGL)

Version 1.8 (2002-12-09) Platforms:

Use the "OpenGL" versions of VMD unless you have a specific need to use the Mesa version.

• Source Code
• AIX4 Mesa (IBM AIX 4.x using Mesa)
• AIX4 OpenGL (IBM AIX 4.x with hardware OpenGL)
• HPUX11 Mesa (HP HP-UX 11.0 using Mesa)
• HPUX11 OpenGL (HP HP-UX 11.0 using hardware OpenGL)
• IRIX6 OpenGL (SGI IRIX 6.5.20 using hardware OpenGL + CAVE)
• IRIX6_64 OpenGL (SGI IRIX 6.5.20 (64-bit) using hardware OpenGL)
• LINUX Mesa (Linux with Mesa)
• LINUX OpenGL (Linux (32-bit, RHEL4 or later))
• LINUXALPHA Mesa (Linux Alpha with Mesa)
• MacOS X OpenGL (PowerPC) (Apple MacOS-X (10.3.5 or later) with hardware OpenGL (native bundle))
• SOLARIS Mesa (Sun Solaris 8 (UltraSPARC) with Mesa)
• SOLARIS OpenGL (Sun Solaris 9 (UltraSPARC) with harware OpenGL)
• SOLARIS_64 OpenGL (Sun Solaris 10 (64-bit UltraSPARC) with hardware OpenGL)
• TRU64 Mesa (HP Tru64 Unix with Mesa)
• TRU64 OpenGL (HP Tru64 Unix with hardware OpenGL)
• Windows OpenGL (Microsoft Windows XP/Vista/7 (32-bit) using OpenGL)

Version 1.7.2 (2002-02-06) Platforms:

• Windows OpenGL (Microsoft Windows XP/Vista/7 (32-bit) using OpenGL)

Version 1.7.1 (2001-12-23) Platforms:

• Source Code
• AIX4 Mesa (IBM AIX 4.x using Mesa)
• AIX4 OpenGL (IBM AIX 4.x with hardware OpenGL)
• HPUX11 Mesa (HP HP-UX 11.0 using Mesa)
• HPUX11 OpenGL (HP HP-UX 11.0 using hardware OpenGL)
• IRIX6 OpenGL (SGI IRIX 6.5.20 using hardware OpenGL + CAVE)
• IRIX6_64 OpenGL (SGI IRIX 6.5.20 (64-bit) using hardware OpenGL)
• LINUX Mesa (Linux with Mesa)
• LINUX OpenGL (Linux (32-bit, RHEL4 or later))
• LINUXALPHA Mesa (Linux Alpha with Mesa)
• LINUXPPC Mesa (Linux PPC with Mesa)
• MacOS-X Mesa/X11 (MacOS-X with Mesa/X11)
• SOLARIS Mesa (Sun Solaris 8 (UltraSPARC) with Mesa)
• SOLARIS OpenGL (Sun Solaris 9 (UltraSPARC) with harware OpenGL)
• SOLARISX86 Mesa (Sun Solarix 2.x (x86) with Mesa)
• SOLARIS_64 OpenGL (Sun Solaris 10 (64-bit UltraSPARC) with hardware OpenGL)
• TRU64 Mesa (HP Tru64 Unix with Mesa)
• TRU64 OpenGL (HP Tru64 Unix with hardware OpenGL)
• Windows OpenGL (Microsoft Windows XP/Vista/7 (32-bit) using OpenGL)

Version 1.7 (2001-08-01) Platforms:

• Source Code
• AIX4 Mesa (IBM AIX 4.x using Mesa)
• AIX4 OpenGL (IBM AIX 4.x with hardware OpenGL)
• HPUX10 Mesa (HPUX 10.20 using Mesa)
• HPUX10 OpenGL (HPUX 10.20 using hardware OpenGL)
• HPUX11 Mesa (HP HP-UX 11.0 using Mesa)
• HPUX11 OpenGL (HP HP-UX 11.0 using hardware OpenGL)
• IRIX6 OpenGL (SGI IRIX 6.5.20 using hardware OpenGL + CAVE)
• IRIX6_64 OpenGL (SGI IRIX 6.5.20 (64-bit) using hardware OpenGL)
• LINUX Mesa (Linux with Mesa)
• LINUX OpenGL (Linux (32-bit, RHEL4 or later))
• LINUXALPHA Mesa (Linux Alpha with Mesa)
• LINUXPPC Mesa (Linux PPC with Mesa)
• MacOS-X Mesa/X11 (MacOS-X with Mesa/X11)
• SOLARIS Mesa (Sun Solaris 8 (UltraSPARC) with Mesa)
• SOLARIS OpenGL (Sun Solaris 9 (UltraSPARC) with harware OpenGL)
• SOLARISX86 Mesa (Sun Solarix 2.x (x86) with Mesa)
• SOLARIS_64 OpenGL (Sun Solaris 10 (64-bit UltraSPARC) with hardware OpenGL)
• TRU64 Mesa (HP Tru64 Unix with Mesa)
• TRU64 OpenGL (HP Tru64 Unix with hardware OpenGL)
• Windows OpenGL (Microsoft Windows XP/Vista/7 (32-bit) using OpenGL)

Version 1.6.1 (2001-04-22) Platforms:

• Source Code
• AIX4 Mesa (IBM AIX 4.x using Mesa)
• AIX4 OpenGL (IBM AIX 4.x with hardware OpenGL)
• HPUX10 Mesa (HPUX 10.20 using Mesa)
• HPUX10 OpenGL (HPUX 10.20 using hardware OpenGL)
• HPUX11 Mesa (HP HP-UX 11.0 using Mesa)
• HPUX11 OpenGL (HP HP-UX 11.0 using hardware OpenGL)
• IRIX6 OpenGL (SGI IRIX 6.5.20 using hardware OpenGL + CAVE)
• IRIX6_64 OpenGL (SGI IRIX 6.5.20 (64-bit) using hardware OpenGL)
• LINUX Mesa (Linux with Mesa)
• LINUX OpenGL (Linux (32-bit, RHEL4 or later))
• LINUXALPHA Mesa (Linux Alpha with Mesa)
• LINUXPPC Mesa (Linux PPC with Mesa)
• MacOS-X Mesa/X11 (MacOS-X with Mesa/X11)
• SOLARIS Mesa (Sun Solaris 8 (UltraSPARC) with Mesa)
• SOLARIS OpenGL (Sun Solaris 9 (UltraSPARC) with harware OpenGL)
• SOLARISX86 Mesa (Sun Solarix 2.x (x86) with Mesa)
• SOLARIS_64 OpenGL (Sun Solaris 10 (64-bit UltraSPARC) with hardware OpenGL)
• TRU64 Mesa (HP Tru64 Unix with Mesa)
• TRU64 OpenGL (HP Tru64 Unix with hardware OpenGL)
• Windows OpenGL (Microsoft Windows XP/Vista/7 (32-bit) using OpenGL)

Version 1.6 (2000-12-22) Platforms:

• Source Code
• AIX4 Mesa (IBM AIX 4.x using Mesa)
• AIX4 OpenGL (IBM AIX 4.x with hardware OpenGL)
• HPUX10 Mesa (HPUX 10.20 using Mesa)
• HPUX10 OpenGL (HPUX 10.20 using hardware OpenGL)
• HPUX11 Mesa (HP HP-UX 11.0 using Mesa)
• HPUX11 OpenGL (HP HP-UX 11.0 using hardware OpenGL)
• IRIX6 OpenGL (SGI IRIX 6.5.20 using hardware OpenGL + CAVE)
• LINUX Mesa (Linux with Mesa)
• LINUX OpenGL (Linux (32-bit, RHEL4 or later))
• LINUXALPHA Mesa (Linux Alpha with Mesa)
• LINUXPPC Mesa (Linux PPC with Mesa)
• SOLARIS Mesa (Sun Solaris 8 (UltraSPARC) with Mesa)
• SOLARIS OpenGL (Sun Solaris 9 (UltraSPARC) with harware OpenGL)
• SOLARISX86 Mesa (Sun Solarix 2.x (x86) with Mesa)
• TRU64 Mesa (HP Tru64 Unix with Mesa)
• TRU64 OpenGL (HP Tru64 Unix with hardware OpenGL)
• Windows OpenGL (Microsoft Windows XP/Vista/7 (32-bit) using OpenGL)

Version 1.5 (2000-06-28) Platforms:

• Source Code
• AIX4 Mesa (IBM AIX 4.x using Mesa)
• AIX4 OpenGL (IBM AIX 4.x with hardware OpenGL)
• HPUX10 Mesa (HPUX 10.20 using Mesa)
• HPUX10 OpenGL (HPUX 10.20 using hardware OpenGL)
• HPUX11 Mesa (HP HP-UX 11.0 using Mesa)
• HPUX11 OpenGL (HP HP-UX 11.0 using hardware OpenGL)
• IRIX5 OpenGL (SGI IRIX 5.x using hardware OpenGL)
• IRIX6 OpenGL (SGI IRIX 6.5.20 using hardware OpenGL + CAVE)
• LINUX Mesa (Linux with Mesa)
• LINUX OpenGL (Linux (32-bit, RHEL4 or later))
• SOLARIS Mesa (Sun Solaris 8 (UltraSPARC) with Mesa)
• SOLARIS OpenGL (Sun Solaris 9 (UltraSPARC) with harware OpenGL)
• SOLARISX86 Mesa (Sun Solarix 2.x (x86) with Mesa)
• TRU64 Mesa (HP Tru64 Unix with Mesa)
• TRU64 OpenGL (HP Tru64 Unix with hardware OpenGL)
• Windows OpenGL (Microsoft Windows XP/Vista/7 (32-bit) using OpenGL)

Version 1.4 (2000-01-07) Platforms:

• Source Code
• AIX4 Mesa (IBM AIX 4.x using Mesa)
• AIX4 OpenGL (IBM AIX 4.x with hardware OpenGL)
• HPUX10 Mesa (HPUX 10.20 using Mesa)
• HPUX10 OpenGL (HPUX 10.20 using hardware OpenGL)
• HPUX11 Mesa (HP HP-UX 11.0 using Mesa)
• HPUX11 OpenGL (HP HP-UX 11.0 using hardware OpenGL)
• IRIX5 GL (SGI IRIX 5.x using hardware GL)
• IRIX5 OpenGL (SGI IRIX 5.x using hardware OpenGL)
• IRIX6 GL (SGI IRIX 6.5.20 using hardware GL + CAVE)
• IRIX6 OpenGL (SGI IRIX 6.5.20 using hardware OpenGL + CAVE)
• LINUX Mesa (Linux with Mesa)
• SOLARIS Mesa (Sun Solaris 8 (UltraSPARC) with Mesa)
• SOLARIS OpenGL (Sun Solaris 9 (UltraSPARC) with harware OpenGL)
• SOLARISX86 Mesa (Sun Solarix 2.x (x86) with Mesa)
• TRU64 Mesa (HP Tru64 Unix with Mesa)
• Windows OpenGL (Microsoft Windows XP/Vista/7 (32-bit) using OpenGL)