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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Thu Jan 03 2013 - 09:57:05 CST

The areas where VMD gets the greatest speedup from GPU acceleration are:
  - QuickSurf representation
  - Orbitals representation
  - Electrostatic potential map calculation (volmap coulomb, volmap coulombmsm)
  - Calculation of radial distribution function, i.e. g(r) (measure rdf)

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 08:20:27AM -0600, Martin, Erik W wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I was wondering if someone could give me a quick answer to where VMD sees the significant improvements when complied to take advantage of GPUs?
>
> Thanks a lot,
> Erik
>
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