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Hi Akshay,<br>
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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).<br>
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Tom<br>
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12pt;">Dear Sir / Madam,<br>
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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?<br>
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Regards, <br>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Akshay Kumar Ganguly</span><br>
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<span style="font-style: italic;">Research Fellow, </span><br
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<span style="font-style: italic;">Structural and Computational
Biology Group,</span><br style="font-style: italic;">
<span style="font-style: italic;">International Centre for
Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology,</span><br
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<span style="font-style: italic;">New Delhi, India<br>
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