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Chimera does not use CUDA. It only uses the GPU for graphics (e.g.
lighting with GLSL fragment shaders). Frames rendered per second is
usually limited by GPU speed in Chimera, but setting up scenes
(loading molecular models, computing surfaces, ...) is limited by
CPU speed.<br>
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Tom<br>
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<div>Hi Sir,</div>
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<div>I would like to get help from you to confirm whether
Chimera use GPU accelerating function.</div>
<div>I have a customer and they are using Chimera: </div>
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<li>Customer: Institute of Biophysics of China</li>
<li>Platform: Dell 5500 workstation, Windows VISTA 64bit
OS, FX4800 , Quadro driver version : 259.81,</li>
<li>Application: UCSF Chimera 1.5 for protein molecule
analysis</li>
<li>Status: Chimera for 64bit OS , the graphic 3D
performance would be 5 times fast than Chimera for 32bit
OS in VISTA64</li>
<li>Need to check: Whether Chimera using CUDA/GPU
accelerating function</li>
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<div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif">Best Regards,</font></div>
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<div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif">Allan Hou(<font face="ËÎÌå">ºî
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<div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif">Enterprise Account Sales
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<div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif">0086-13801005536</font></div>
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