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From: Ramon Guixà (ramonguixxa_at_gmail.com)
Date: Thu Mar 30 2017 - 05:23:31 CDT

Hi Josh,

Well, I though there was a VMD plugin meant to handle remote visualization
of trajectories. Nevertheless, your suggestion is definitely handy.

Thanks!
Ramon

On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 6:47 PM, Vermaas, Joshua <Joshua.Vermaas_at_nrel.gov>
wrote:

> Hi Ramon,
>
> The simplest way I've found to do this is actually completely independent
> of VMD. On Linux systems (and maybe windows or Mac systems, I just haven't
> had the need to figure this out), you can remotely mount filesystems that
> reside on remote filesystems with sshfs, an ssh filesystem. In this way,
> remote files act exactly like local ones, albeit with slightly slower file
> transfer rates (this depends on your network). This can be handy if the
> files as a whole are too large to transfer over to local disk, but you'd
> still like to look at bits of the trajectory easily.
>
> -Josh
>
> On 03/29/2017 05:12 AM, Ramon Guixà wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I have heard about the interactive remote visualization and video
> streaming capabilities of vmd but Is there actually a plugin in vmd where I
> could remotely load up my MD trajectory from a server for
> visualization/analysis purposes?
>
> Thanks in advance!
> Ramon
>
>