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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Wed Apr 18 2007 - 16:14:32 CDT

Cesar,
  Ah. Yeah, I normally suggest people avoid running the GUI remotely for
performance reasons. Some people actually do have reasons to do so,
typically when working with a huge dataset that can't possibly fit in
the physical memory of their own machine.

  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 03:23:21PM -0300, Cesar Luis Avila wrote:
> John,
> I am aware of that, and indeed I have used vmd in such a way several times.
> My question was because I thoght that perhaps, he wanted to start the
> GUI from a remote connection.
> Regards
> Cesar
>
> John Stone escribió:
> >Cesar,
> > Many people actually run VMD without graphics as a means of performing
> >various analyses without having to download huge trajectory files to their
> >local workstation. Similarly, some people run tens or hundreds of
> >independent
> >copies of VMD at a time on clusters as a means of accelerating some of
> >the bioinformatics functions provided by multiseq. These are just a few
> >examples, but the point is that you can actually do various things with
> >VMD even without a graphical interface. You can do this by starting VMD
> >with the command:
> > vmd -dispdev text
> >
> >Cheers,
> > John Stone
> > vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
> >
> >On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 12:54:40PM -0300, Cesar Luis Avila wrote:
> >
> >>Dear lan,
> >>you are installing VMD on a cluster and not on your personal
> >>workstation. What kind of task are you planning to accomplish?
> >>
> >>lanhua escribi¨®:
> >>
> >>>Hi,
> >>> I downloaded the linux version of 1.8.6, LINUX OpenGL and followed
> >>> the instruction to install vmd in the linux cluster of our lab. But
> >>> the vmd can't start up after installation. I don't know what's
> >>> wrong, and also I don't know what OpenGL is. Thanks!
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>Lan
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >
> > 

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