imd

Controls the connection to a remote simulation.

• connect host port: connect to an MD simulation running on the machine named host and listening on port port. This command will fail if a previously-established connection has not yet been disconnected.

• detach: Disconnect from the simulation; the simulation will continue to run.

• kill: Disconnect from the simulation and also cause it to halt.

• pause < on | off | toggle >: Pause, unpause or toggle the paused state of the remote simulation.

• transfer rate: Set the rate at which new coordinates are sent by the remote simulation to VMD to the specified value.

• keep rate: Set the keep rate, i.e. the frequency at which VMD saves simulation frames to memory, to the specified value.