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The first step in starting a new simulation, or in attaching to
a running simulation, is to establish a connection with the MDComm control
daemon (called rappd) on the remote computer. Enter the machine name
and username in the given text areas, and press the Connect button.
This then directs VMD to connect to the remote MDComm daemon, which will
return information about available applications, and running jobs, on that
computer.
After the connection is established, two browsers will be shown:
- A browser listing the available applications. These are the
names of programs which can connect to VMD through this mechanism. If you
are starting a new simulation, select the name of the program you wish to
start, and press the Get Parameters button.
- A browser listing the running jobs. These are jobs which
were previously started by VMD, and left running (by using the detach
ability in VMD). To reconnect to these jobs, select the appropriate job
and press the large button at the bottom of the form.
Justin Gullingsrud
Tue Apr 6 09:22:39 CDT 1999