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From: Richard Cook (rcook_at_llnl.gov)
Date: Wed Sep 29 2010 - 16:50:52 CDT

You meant "glxgears"

On Sep 29, 2010, at 1:18 PM, Gianluca Interlandi wrote:

> Hi Trinh,
>
> Thanks for sharing this information. Can you please type in a terminal:
> glxgear
>
> then, wait 30 sec, then maximize the glxgear window, wait another 30 sec
> and then send us the output?
>
> Thank you!
>
> Gianluca
>
> On Wed, 29 Sep 2010, TRINH Minh Hieu wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a HP Mini 311c with Openuse 11.3, Xfce 4.6.2 and Windows XP
>> SP3, that have
>> Nvidia ION LE + Atom N270 (1.6GHz) + 2Go DDR3 Ram. *
>>
>> The battery stand for aroung 4h-5h.
>>
>> I have Nvidia driver 256.35
>>
>> Here is what I have when launch vmd:
>> Info) Multithreading available, 2 CPUs detected.
>> Info) Free system memory: 1545MB (88%)
>> Info) Detected 1 available CUDA accelerator:
>> Info) [0] ION LE 2 SM_1.1 @ 1.10 GHz, 253MB RAM, KTO, ZCP
>> Info) Creating CUDA device pool and initializing hardware...
>> Warning) Detected X11 'Composite' extension: if incorrect display occurs
>> Warning) try disabling this optional X server feature.
>> Info) OpenGL renderer: ION LE/PCI/SSE2
>> Info) Features: STENCIL MSAA(4) MDE CVA MTX NPOT PP PS GLSL(OVF)
>> Info) Full GLSL rendering mode is available.
>> Info) Textures: 2-D (8192x8192), 3-D (2048x2048x2048), Multitexture (4)
>>
>> On Linux, when I open the Fab structure 1AY1 of an antibody that have
>> : 3282 atoms and 423 residus, with cache mode on, I got :
>> 6 fps with VDW in normal mode and 12.5 fps in GLSL mode
>> 4.8 fps with surf in normal mode and 24 fps in GLSL mode
>>
>> If you need more informations, I can do some more testing,
>> Regards,
>>
>> M.H. Trinh
>>
>>>
>>> Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2010 12:01:40 -0700 (PDT)
>>> From: Gianluca Interlandi <gianluca_at_u.washington.edu>
>>> Subject: vmd-l: Experience with Asus Netbook
>>>
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> It might be a bit off topic. I wanted to ask whether anybody has had any
>>> experience with the Asus EEE netbook:
>>>
>>> http://BLOCKEDwww.BLOCKEDnewegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834220805&cm_re=asus_eee-_-34-220-805-_-Product
>>>
>>> ASUS Eee PC 1215N-PU17-BK Black Intel Atom D525(1.80GHz) Dual Core 12.1"
>>> WXGA 2GB Memory 250GB HDD NetBook
>>>
>>> In particular concerning the graphics card: Next-generation NVIDIA ION
>>> graphics
>>>
>>> Has anybody tested it with glxgear, how many frames per second? Is it
>>> enough to run VMD on it and display and smoothly rotate a molecule (a few
>>> 100 AA) with SURF or VDW on? I plan to use it mainly for conference
>>> presentations. Does it have openGL 3D acceleration?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Gianluca
>>>
>>> - -----------------------------------------------------
>>> Gianluca Interlandi, PhD gianluca_at_u.washington.edu
>>> +1 (206) 685 4435
>>> http://BLOCKEDartemide.bioeng.washington.edu/
>>>
>>> Postdoc at the Department of Bioengineering
>>> at the University of Washington, Seattle WA U.S.A.
>>> - -----------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> ------------------------------
>>>
>>> Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2010 21:36:52 -0700 (PDT)
>>> From: Rob <spamrefuse_at_yahoo.com>
>>> Subject: vmd-l: Re: plugin for Abinit output files
>>>
>>>> Hi Rob,
>>>> I'm finally catching up on a long backlog of emails...
>>>> I'm testing compiles of your plugin on multiple platforms presently.
>>>> Can you send me some example ABINIT files I should be able to load with it?
>>>> (either email, or post them on your web page in the same directory
>>>> as the abinit plugin source code link you sent)
>>>>
>>>> As soon as I get past a few small compilation issues, I could
>>>> then add the code to the VMD CVS tree. Are you agreeable with it
>>>> being open source like the other VMD plugins?
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> John Stone
>>>
>>> It's in place:
>>>
>>> http://BLOCKEDskku.homeip.net/lahaye/vmd/
>>>
>>> there are the GEO and DEN files of the Silicon unit cell.
>>>
>>> GEO has the geometry.
>>>
>>> The DEN file has the charge density, but also the geometry is part
>>> of the density header information. Therefore when you load the
>>> charge density, you can use two representations for showing
>>> the atoms (Drawing Method CPK) and the charge density
>>> (Drawing Method Isosurface).
>>>
>>> Rob.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ------------------------------
>>>
>>> End of vmd-l digest V1 #1689
>>> ****************************
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> ============================================
>> M. TRINH Minh Hieu
>> CEA, IBEB, SBTN/LIRM,
>> Tél : 04 66 79 19 44
>> F-30207 Bagnols-sur-Cèze, FRANCE
>> ============================================
>>
>>
>
> -----------------------------------------------------
> Gianluca Interlandi, PhD gianluca_at_u.washington.edu
> +1 (206) 685 4435
> http://BLOCKEDartemide.bioeng.washington.edu/
>
> Postdoc at the Department of Bioengineering
> at the University of Washington, Seattle WA U.S.A.
> ----------------------------------------------------- 

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