VMD Test Release Page
This page contains special (often short-lived or special purpose)
test builds of VMD meant for a small subgroup of the user community
or for very early testing.
Latest VMD test versions for new platforms or special features:
- VMD 1.9.4a55 for RHEL 7+ Linux, 64-bit Intel x86 (x86_64), RTX RTRT (Oct 19, 2021): New full-time interactive ray tracing display mode on NVIDIA RTX GPUs
- VMD 1.9.4a55 for MacOS X, 64-bit Intel x86 (x86_64) (Oct 19, 2021): MacOS X Big Sur fixes w/ Tcl/Tk 8.6.11
- VMD 1.9.4a55 for MacOS X, 64-bit Apple M1 (ARM64) (Oct 19, 2021): MacOS X Big Sur, Tcl/Tk 8.6.11
- VMD 1.9.4a53 for Windows, 64-bit Intel x86 (x86_64) (Jun 30, 2021): Windows 64-bit large dataset support, CUDA 11.1, OptiX, OSPRay
Older test versions:
- VMD 1.9.4a51 for MacOS X, 64-bit Intel x86 (x86_64) (Dec 21, 2020): MacOS X Big Sur fixes w/ Tcl/Tk 8.6.11
- VMD 1.9.4a51 for Windows, 64-bit Intel x86 (x86_64) (Dec 21, 2020): Windows 64-bit large dataset support, CUDA 11.1, OptiX, OSPRay
- VMD 1.9.4a51 for MacOS X, 64-bit Apple M1 (ARM64) (Dec 21, 2020): MacOS X Big Sur, Tcl/Tk 8.6.11
- VMD 1.9.4a48 Rev 7 for MacOS X Catalina (October 13, 2020): MacOS X Catalina fixes w/ Tcl/Tk 8.6.x TkCon updates, AVX2 and AVX-512 CPU support, general VMD updates for all platforms
- VMD 1.9.4a43 Rev 6 for MacOS X Catalina (June 11, 2020): Fix msgcat package error, general VMD bug fixes for all platforms
- VMD 1.9.4a42 Rev 5 for MacOS X Catalina (May 29, 2020): Intel OSPRay-1.8.5, Updated modeling plugins updated for Tk 8.6 (grid vs. pack corrections)
- VMD 1.9.4a42 Rev 4 for MacOS X Catalina (May 9, 2020): Updated modeling plugins updated for Tk 8.6 (grid vs. pack corrections)
- VMD 1.9.4a42 Rev 3 for MacOS X Catalina (Apr 24, 2020): Apple Retina updates, STRIDE, OSPRay 1.8.5, QwikMD, CatDCD fixes
- VMD 1.9.4a41 Rev 2 for MacOS X Catalina (Apr 17, 2020): Tcl/Tk 8.6.10, Apple Retina High-DPI tag added to Info.plist
- VMD 1.9.4a41 Rev 1 for MacOS X Catalina (Apr 17, 2020): Tcl/Tk 8.6.9
