[Chimera-users] Enabling multithreading in chimera

[Tom Goddard]

Hi Akshay,

   Chimera does not use multiple threads (with exception of a few cases 
like watching for a file system hang) and there is no way to enable 
additional multithreading.  We are interested in allowing use of 
multiple cores for specific compute intensive tasks.  What specific 
functions in Chimera do you find slow?  If the rendering is slow 
(rotating models is jerky) that is a limitation of the GPU which is 
already heavily multithreaded if you have a modern graphics card (some 
GPUs have 800 cores).

     Tom


> Dear Sir / Madam,
>
> I use chimera 1.5 regularly for protein studies on a Quad core machine 
> with Nvidia graphics running Ubuntu. However, the application does not 
> support multi-threading and hence, runs quite slow. Is it possible to 
> enable multi-threading in the existing release or will such a version 
> of chimera be released in the near future?
>
> Regards,
> Akshay Kumar Ganguly
>
> Research Fellow,
> Structural and Computational Biology Group,
> International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology,
> New Delhi, India
>
>

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