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.

• copyunitcell < on | off >: Enable or disable copying unit cell information from the previous frame when updating or saving frames through IMD. This can be useful when using periodic display with IMD since the IMD protocol currently doesn't support communicating the unitcell information, or when using a IMD client that does not provide this information after the protocol has been extended.
  WARNING: when using imd copyunitcell on with simulations in NPT ensemble, the resulting unit cell information will be incorrect.
  The default setting is off.