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<p>Your university might want the regular version of Chimera to
remotely display data. In that case, you should set up VirtualGL
as well. And a RDP solution, like x2go. It doesn't perform as
well as Chimera running locally on the desktop, but it might be
sufficient.<br>
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<p> -- Greg<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/21/2020 11:21 AM, Calvin Dodge
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<p class="MsoNormal">Greg,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks for your reply _<i>I</i>_ don’t
want to run Chimera in a cluster environment, but the
university I’m doing the install for does. I’ll install the
headless version.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Sincerely,</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Calvin Dodge</p>
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<b>Sent: </b>Wednesday, October 21, 2020 12:24 PM<br>
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<b>Subject: </b>Re: [Chimera-users] Broken links, system
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<p>(We're working on the web site issues.)</p>
<p>So the real question is why do you want to run Chimera in a
cluster environment?</p>
<p>Chimera is not designed to run in a cluster environment, it
is designed to run a user's desktop computer using 3D
graphics. Chimera does not use CUDA. That said, there is a
headless version for Linux that uses a software implementation
of OpenGL to create images that you could use in a cluster, so
no graphics card is needed. </p>
<p>ChimeraX, our successor to Chimera, can take advantage of
CUDA in some circumstances, but it is not required. ChimeraX
also only works headless on Linux, with a software
implementation of OpenGL. The headless operation is included
in every Linux version. So no graphics card is needed there
either. We are investigating ways to take advantage of the
graphic card's performance when running headless, but we're
not there yet.</p>
<p> HTH,</p>
<p> Greg</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 10/21/2020 9:24 AM, Calvin Dodge
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I have been trying to 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?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">My search for information has been
hampered by an apparent failure or reorganization of the
main site -https://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Every internal link from that page (like
to Downloads) is broken.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Will the broken links be fixed? Is
another page the preferred one for Chimera? Do I need the
OSMesa version to run without graphics cards?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Calvin Dodge<o:p></o:p></p>
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