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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Wed Apr 13 2011 - 12:57:44 CDT

Hi,
  I haven't tested these GPU models specifically, but I would
expect them to work fine for VMD so long as you have current
drivers installed on your machine(s). One suggestion I do have
regarding GPUs for CUDA is that you try to buy cards that have
at least 1GB of RAM on them when possible. Now that a lot of
applications are beginning to use CUDA or advanced OpenGL features
that consume GPU memory, it is becoming important to make sure
you buy GPUs that have plenty of RAM so that you don't run
out when running multiple programs (e.g. Google Chrome, VMD, etc)
that use the on-board GPU memory for various things. You can still
use GPUs that only have 512MB of RAM, but you'll be more apt to
run into issues when running multiple applications using the
same set of GPUs for CUDA, OpenCL, OpenGL, and so on.

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 12:26:02PM -0400, Burgess, Don E wrote:
>
> Has anyone successfully used these recent Geforce Cuda GPU cards(GT 440, GTX 560ti) with CUDA enabled VMD?
>
> thank you very much for your comments,
> don burgess 

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