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From: Nicolas CHARVIN (Nicolas.Charvin_at_univ-savoie.fr)
Date: Wed Mar 30 2005 - 01:54:37 CST

Hi

Is there any existing benchmark concerning the maximum of atoms in a
molecule VMD is able to load ?
Within our own MD software, we typically use molecules with approx. 1
million atoms. So, before writing a plugin to read our files, we'd like to
know if VMD is able to handle them ?

the only benchmark I found is: http://pymol.sourceforge.net/pmimag/compare.html

but, it's limited to 52,000 atoms.

Does any of you have loaded a "huge" molecule, on which hardware
configuration, and with wich results ?

thanks in advance

nicolas 

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LMOPS - Lab. Matériaux Organiques à Propriétés Spécifiques
Bât IUT - Université de Savoie
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http://www.univ-savoie.fr/labos/lmops