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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Tue Feb 12 2008 - 18:26:09 CST

Hi,
  Thanks for the information Christoph. I should also note that
this new version of MacOS X is the first one to support CUDA on
Macs that have the NVIDIA G8x or G9x class of GPUs.
I plan to support CUDA in the next in the next VMD releases for Linux
for sure, and likely also MacOS X and Windows if all goes well there.
In about a month I'll have some new test builds that should be
interesting in that regard.

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 02:51:14PM -0800, Christoph Weber wrote:
> Good news for Mac users:
> After yesterday's update to MacOSX 10.5.2 and the subsequent Leopard
> Graphics Update, VMD on my first-generation MacBook Pro 2 GHz Core Duo
> with ATI Radeon X1600 is between 17% and 33% faster than under MacOSX
> 10.4.6 (or MacOSX 10.5.1 for that matter). What's more, GLSL rendering
> now works, albeit at very low frame rates.
> On my dual 1.8 GHz G5 PowerMac the changes are less spectacular,
> around 5%.
>
> Seems like Apple has done some good work on its drivers for recent
> graphics cards and on its OpenGL subsystem.
>
> Note that the Leopard Graphics Update only becomes available once you
> have upgraded to 10.5.2. I.e. you have to run Software Update twice.
> Plus, the 10.5.2 update might require two reboots for a total of three
> reboots until you're done.
>
> Christoph
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