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VMD Development Tools
VMD, a highly complex program, incorporates various graphics, interface, and scripting software components. Supporting VMD on multiple platforms and assuring the quality of the software, requires the use a variety of software tools and equipment in development and testing. This page lists the tools we use in-house to develop and test VMD.
Locally maintained graphics test systems
A range of locally maintained systems are used in the day-to-day VMD development and testing process. This list encompasses the hardware configurations we routinely use with VMD to ensure quality and portability.
- Apple G4, Dual 1Ghz PowerPC, with ATI Radeon 9700 graphics, running MacOS 10.3.5
- Eye3D stereo LCD shutter glasses
- Generic PC, 1333MHz Athlon, with NVIDIA GeForce 6800GT graphics, running Windows XP
- Generic PC, 1333MHz Athlon, with NVidia GeForce 6800GT and ATI FireGL X1 graphics, running Redhat Linux 9
- SGI Onyx2, with InfiniteReality2 graphics, running IRIX 6.5
- Stereographics CrystalEyes stereo LCD shutter glasses
- Sun Blade 2000 with dual XVR-1000 graphics, running Solaris 10
- Sun V880z dual XVR-4000 graphics, running Solaris 10
- Sun W2100z with NVidia GeForce 6800GT graphics, running Redhat Enterprise Linux 4 update 4
Loaned graphics equipment used for testing
Vendors have occasionally provided the VMD development team short-term equipment loans to aid us in our efforts to add support for unique hardware features and for performance tuning.
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