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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Sat Oct 01 2011 - 21:20:18 CDT

A few minor corrections:

On Sat, Oct 01, 2011 at 08:58:19AM -0400, Axel Kohlmeyer wrote:
[...]
> drivers). high-performance quadro cards are very expensive,
> but most of the features that they offer over geforce
> cards are not exploited by VMD. so you are probably best
> off with a GeForce GTX 580 card.

This statement is somewhat inaccurate. VMD benefits directly
from the larger memory capacity of the Quadro cards,
support for stereoscopic display, improved line antialiasing,
ECC memory, dual DMA copy engines, and other features of the
Quadro cards. What Quadro features are you thinking of that
VMD does not exploit? For systems with 20 million atoms,
having the larger memory of the Quadro cards is going to be
a big deal. The new GPU-accelerated surface representations
I'm working on will need memory, and this is an area where
the Quadro has a huge advantage compared with the GeForce cards.

Cheers,
  John Stone
  johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu

> cheers,
> axel.
>
> > Thanks in advance and best regards,
> > Dmitry Osolodkin
> 

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