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From: Vikas Varshney (vv0210_at_gmail.com)
Date: Tue Jul 03 2012 - 12:33:27 CDT

Dear John,
Thanks for the clear explaination. I will look into it in detail now.

Best Regards,
Vikas

On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 1:01 PM, John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu> wrote:

>
> Hi,
> To setup 3-D stereoscopic display on Linux, you'll need to have
> an NVIDIA Quadro card and a set of glasses/emitters and a display
> that they are compatible with. Over the years, our lab has used
> Quadro 4000, 5600, 5800, 6000, and QuadroPlex GPUs to drive our
> various stereo workstations and projectors. Lately we are using
> polarized passive stereo projection systems, and on desktops
> we're using Acer stereo LCD displays with built-in emitters with
> the NVIDIA shutter glasses. Of all of the different options, the
> most important choice (and usually most expensive part) is what
> GPUs you use. If you really plan to do a lot of stereoscopic
> display work, you will want to spend the money to get one of the
> higher-end Quadro cards. Some of the low-end Quadro cards aren't
> really meant for stereoscopic display and don't have enough horsepower
> to do it well. Keep in mind that stereoscopic display requires twice
> as much work, so even the high-end Quadro 6000 cards end up running
> noticably slower when running in stereo than when doing monoscopic
> interactive VMD display.
>
> Cheers,
> John Stone
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
> On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 12:37:48PM -0400, Vikas Varshney wrote:
> > Dear John, Users,
> >
> > I intend to visualize my MD trajectories and molecules of interest on
> > Linux (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5 (Tikanga)) in 3D.I will highly
> > appreciate if you guys could guide me what hardware I need to get
> > (graphics card, monitors, glasses)?
> >
> > Before writing, I tried searching through archive to see if other
> people
> > have asked the same question but only got two hits.
> > Once from 2010 (related to VMD 1.8.7; it was not very clear to me) and
> > other recent one which was focused on Windows (which linked to UNC
> website
> > tutorial to set up simple stereo system).
> >
> > Thanks for your guidance.
> >
> > Best Regards,
> > Vikas
>
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