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From: Gianluca Interlandi (gianluca_at_u.washington.edu)
Date: Wed Sep 29 2010 - 15:18:53 CDT

Hi Trinh,

Thanks for sharing this information. Can you please type in a terminal:
glxgear

then, wait 30 sec, then maximize the glxgear window, wait another 30 sec
and then send us the output?

Thank you!

         Gianluca

On Wed, 29 Sep 2010, TRINH Minh Hieu wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a HP Mini 311c with Openuse 11.3, Xfce 4.6.2 and Windows XP
> SP3, that have
> Nvidia ION LE + Atom N270 (1.6GHz) + 2Go DDR3 Ram. *
>
> The battery stand for aroung 4h-5h.
>
> I have Nvidia driver 256.35
>
> Here is what I have when launch vmd:
> Info) Multithreading available, 2 CPUs detected.
> Info) Free system memory: 1545MB (88%)
> Info) Detected 1 available CUDA accelerator:
> Info) [0] ION LE 2 SM_1.1 @ 1.10 GHz, 253MB RAM, KTO, ZCP
> Info) Creating CUDA device pool and initializing hardware...
> Warning) Detected X11 'Composite' extension: if incorrect display occurs
> Warning) try disabling this optional X server feature.
> Info) OpenGL renderer: ION LE/PCI/SSE2
> Info) Features: STENCIL MSAA(4) MDE CVA MTX NPOT PP PS GLSL(OVF)
> Info) Full GLSL rendering mode is available.
> Info) Textures: 2-D (8192x8192), 3-D (2048x2048x2048), Multitexture (4)
>
> On Linux, when I open the Fab structure 1AY1 of an antibody that have
> : 3282 atoms and 423 residus, with cache mode on, I got :
> 6 fps with VDW in normal mode and 12.5 fps in GLSL mode
> 4.8 fps with surf in normal mode and 24 fps in GLSL mode
>
> If you need more informations, I can do some more testing,
> Regards,
>
> M.H. Trinh
>
>>
>> Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2010 12:01:40 -0700 (PDT)
>> From: Gianluca Interlandi <gianluca_at_u.washington.edu>
>> Subject: vmd-l: Experience with Asus Netbook
>>
>> Hi!
>>
>> It might be a bit off topic. I wanted to ask whether anybody has had any
>> experience with the Asus EEE netbook:
>>
>> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834220805&cm_re=asus_eee-_-34-220-805-_-Product
>>
>> ASUS Eee PC 1215N-PU17-BK Black Intel Atom D525(1.80GHz) Dual Core 12.1"
>> WXGA 2GB Memory 250GB HDD NetBook
>>
>> In particular concerning the graphics card: Next-generation NVIDIA ION
>> graphics
>>
>> Has anybody tested it with glxgear, how many frames per second? Is it
>> enough to run VMD on it and display and smoothly rotate a molecule (a few
>> 100 AA) with SURF or VDW on? I plan to use it mainly for conference
>> presentations. Does it have openGL 3D acceleration?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>      Gianluca
>>
>> - -----------------------------------------------------
>> Gianluca Interlandi, PhD gianluca_at_u.washington.edu
>>                     +1 (206) 685 4435
>>                     http://artemide.bioeng.washington.edu/
>>
>> Postdoc at the Department of Bioengineering
>> at the University of Washington, Seattle WA U.S.A.
>> - -----------------------------------------------------
>>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2010 21:36:52 -0700 (PDT)
>> From: Rob <spamrefuse_at_yahoo.com>
>> Subject: vmd-l: Re: plugin for Abinit output files
>>
>>> Hi Rob,
>>>   I'm finally catching up on a long backlog of emails...
>>> I'm testing compiles of your plugin on multiple platforms presently.
>>> Can you send me some example ABINIT files I should be able to load with it?
>>> (either email, or post them on your web page in the same directory
>>>  as the abinit plugin source code link you sent)
>>>
>>> As soon as I get past a few small compilation issues, I could
>>> then add the code to the VMD CVS tree. Are you agreeable with it
>>> being open source like the other VMD plugins?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>   John Stone
>>
>> It's in place:
>>
>> http://skku.homeip.net/lahaye/vmd/
>>
>> there are the GEO and DEN files of the Silicon unit cell.
>>
>> GEO has the geometry.
>>
>> The DEN file has the charge density, but also the geometry is part
>> of the density header information. Therefore when you load the
>> charge density, you can use two representations for showing
>> the atoms (Drawing Method CPK) and the charge density
>> (Drawing Method Isosurface).
>>
>> Rob.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> End of vmd-l digest V1 #1689
>> ****************************
>>
>>
>
>
>
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Gianluca Interlandi, PhD gianluca_at_u.washington.edu
                     +1 (206) 685 4435
                     http://artemide.bioeng.washington.edu/

Postdoc at the Department of Bioengineering
at the University of Washington, Seattle WA U.S.A.
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