[chimera-dev] Chimera source code

[Tom Goddard]

Hi Haleh,

  We don't distribute Chimera for IBM Power9 processors.  While the source code of Chimera is available (https://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/sourcecode.html <https://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/sourcecode.html>) I do not think it is practical to compile.  Chimera depends on dozens of third party packages which it compiles.  I'd say it would take you a month full time if you are highly experienced at porting complex software to IBM Power9.  Also Chimera is an interactive visualization program used on laptop / desktop computers.  It is hard to make that software work well on a server using remote display.

  A last point is we stopped developing Chimera more than 5 years ago and it has been replaced by ChimeraX.  ChimeraX is easier to compile, but it depends on about 100 third-party libraries, so building it on IBM Power9 would be a huge undertaking.

  So I recommend ChimeraX on a laptop or desktop as the best interactive visualization option.

	Tom

> On Jun 13, 2022, at 11:07 AM, Haleh Shahbazi via Chimera-dev <chimera-dev at cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
> 
> Hello Chimera Developer Team,
>  
> I am Haleh, a PhD student at University of Toronto. For my research, I downloaded Chimera and tried to install and execute its bin file using my SSH terminal on the server (Compute Canada, Mist) which didn’t work due to differences in processing architecture. Chimera was built for Intel x86_64 CPUs, but I’ve been trying to run it on Mist which is a different architecture (IBM Power9).
>  
> Now, I wonder if it requires recompilation of the source code or any recommendation to fix it.
>  
> Thanks in advance for your support!
>  
> Haleh
>  
>  
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