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<p>My coworkers are overly pessimistic about remotely displaying
Chimera. My previous suggestion of using VirtualGL works
remarkably well if the remote computer is Linux and the network is
fast (e.g., at work, and not at home). Depending on how Chimera
is used, it might be acceptable for use from home too. Just don't
expect it to be respond quickly.</p>
<p>VirtualGL is a OpenGL wrapper that uses the graphics card on the
remote computer and sends an image of the graphics window to the
local user. That way you get to use the Chimera's GUI interface.
So in this case, you do need a graphics card and the
corresponding graphics driver (AMD or NVIDIA recommended).
VirtualGL is available at virtualgl.org.<br>
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<p> -- Greg<br>
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Hi Calvin,
<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Our
web sites are back up now. For running Chimera on a server, it
depends what you will be doing with Chimera. If you will be
running Chimera-command or Python scripts that don't save
images, you can use any version with the --nogui flag. If you
will be running scripts that do save images, you can only do
that with the "headless" Linux version. If users will be trying
to run Chimera from the server and remoting their display to
their client, that will be very difficult to get to work
(assuming the remoting is via the X protocol). It rarely works
unless both the client and the server have the same graphics
card, and since your server has no graphics card...</div>
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find out what the hardware requirements are for
Chimera. For example, how can it be run in a cluster
environment with CUDA cards, but no Nvidia graphics
cards?</div>
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<div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family:
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information has been hampered by an apparent failure
or reorganization of the main site -<a
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from that page (like to Downloads) is broken.</div>
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be fixed? Is another page the preferred one for
Chimera? Do I need the OSMesa version to run without
graphics cards?</div>
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