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From: Stanislav Polonsky (polonsky_at_us.ibm.com)
Date: Thu Jul 23 2009 - 16:42:37 CDT

Hi John,

>That said, people that run on AIX and have the appropriate
>IBM OpenGL packages installed locally should be able to
>compile VMD from source code and build themselves a
>graphics-enabled binary without much difficulty.

My AIX box has OpenGL 5.3. Would that be OK to get interactive graphics
display?

Stas Polonsky, PhD
Research Staff Member
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
(914) 945-3849

                                                                           
             John Stone
             <johns_at_ks.uiuc.ed
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             owner-vmd-l_at_ks.ui <akohlmey_at_cmm.chem.upenn.edu>
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                                       Stanislav
                                       Polonsky/Watson/IBM_at_IBMUS,
             07/23/2009 01:49 vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu
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                                       Re: vmd-l: Problem: volumetric data
                                       coloring fails on AIX5_64 with
                                       GXT6500 OpenGL renderer
                                                                           
                                                                           
                                                                           
                                                                           
                                                                           
                                                                           

Hi,

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 12:23:34PM -0400, Axel Kohlmeyer wrote:
[...]
> if you can wait a few more days, there should be a final
> release for VMD (john is working very hard to get it done),
> and i assume also a binary with interactive graphics support
> for AIX will show up.

Actually no, there won't be a binary with graphics support
for AIX provided in the 1.8.7 release. I don't have access
to any AIX systems that have the required OpenGL installation,
so I can't build a graphics-enabled VMD for AIX presently.
The only AIX machine I have access to is a Blue Waters porting
machine that doesn't have OpenGL.

That said, people that run on AIX and have the appropriate
IBM OpenGL packages installed locally should be able to
compile VMD from source code and build themselves a
graphics-enabled binary without much difficulty.

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu 

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