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From: Stefan Doerr (stefdoerr_at_gmail.com)
Date: Thu Sep 27 2018 - 10:24:35 CDT

Oh this is great! Hope to hear news soon :)

On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 5:02 PM John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu> wrote:

> Hi,
> Yes, I have already completed rewriting the necessary parts of VMD
> to support RTX hardware-accelerated ray tracing a few weeks ago.
> VMD was one of the first applications to support RTX, as announced
> by NVIDIA at Siggraph (search for "VMD" in about the middle of the page):
> https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2018/08/13/turing-industry-support/
>
> At this point I'm waiting for the required NVIDIA software libraries
> to come out of NDA, which is taking a little longer than had originally
> been expected. I'm testing the latest version of the code now to ensure
> that VMD is ready to ship with RTX support as soon as NVIDIA releases
> the new version of OptiX.
>
> Best,
> John
>
> On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 10:12:41AM -0400, Giacomo Fiorin wrote:
> > [1]https://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/mailing_list/vmd-l/30200.html
> > On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 6:52 AM Stefan Doerr <[2]stefdoerr_at_gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > Hi, was just wondering if VMD will take advantage of the new RTX
> GPUs of
> > NVIDIA for real time ray tracing. Would that affect as well real
> time
> > ambient occlusion?
> > Greetings,Ā
> > Stefan
> >
> > --
> > Giacomo Fiorin
> > Associate Professor of Research, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
> > Contractor, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
> > [3]http://goo.gl/Q3TBQU
> > [4]https://github.com/giacomofiorin
> >
> > References
> >
> > Visible links
> > 1. https://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/mailing_list/vmd-l/30200.html
> > 2. mailto:stefdoerr_at_gmail.com
> > 3. http://goo.gl/Q3TBQU
> > 4. https://github.com/giacomofiorin
>
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