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From: Philip Fowler (p.w.fowler_at_qmul.ac.uk)
Date: Thu May 05 2005 - 11:04:18 CDT

Hi,

We have a Prism with graphics hardware (it might even work) and I would like
to compile VMD1.8.3 on it.

Could anyone (John?) help me out with the configuration options for a
prism/altix?

Chz,

--Phil

> Hi,
> We don't have an Altix, and at present I don't know anyone that's
> got an Altix/Prism with actual graphics hardware, so I doubt we'll be
> working on this in the short-term. Are you wanting to run VMD in text
> mode on the Altix just for analysis purposes? It shouldn't be terribly
> difficult to compile VMD on an Altix. It would be fairly similar to the
> LINUXALPHA or LINUXAMD64 build configurations, but we haven't added the
> necessary ifdefs for a LINUXIA64 build yet. If someone wants to work on
> this I can provide guidance to help get it done.
>
> John Stone
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
> On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 05:25:51PM -0800, ioana_at_pegasus.arc.nasa.gov wrote:
> > Hi vmd users,
> >
> > Is there anybody out there who has a precompiled version of VMD
> > (executable) for an ALTIX architecture (Linux/IA64)?
> > Any suggestion how one could get such a version?
> >
> > Thank you,
> > Ioana
> >
> > ******************
> > Ioana Cozmuta, PhD
> > Research Scientist
> > Eloret Corporation
> > Mail Stop 230-3
> > NASA AMES Research Center
> > Moffet Field, CA 94035-1000
> > Phone: (650) 604-0993
> > http://ipt.arc.nasa.gov/cozmuta.html 

-- 
Philip Fowler, 
PhD Student
Centre for Computational Science,
UCL Chemistry