VMD-L Mailing List

From: Josh Vermaas (vermaasj_at_msu.edu)
Date: Thu Jul 25 2024 - 08:23:05 CDT

Hi Chris,

You are right. a57 is the newest release with a well-defined version
number. My lab uses whatever is in CVS, which currently has a58 as the
numbering. See http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/vmd-new/devel.html
for what has changed. For us, the big one is the GROMACS tpr reader,
which lets us more easily visualize our GROMACS systems prior to simulation.

-Josh

On 7/24/24 9:14 PM, Chris Taylor wrote:
> Thanks - I went on the download site and clicked on the source code for "Version 1.9.4 LATEST ALPHA (2022-04-27) Platforms:" and got vmd-1.9.4a57.src.tar.gz. Is that the latest, not a58?
>
> Chris
>
>> On 07/24/2024 7:57 AM PDT Vermaas, Josh <vermaasj_at_msu.edu> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hi Chris,
>>
>> My recommendation would be to grab a newer version of the VMD source (like a58). A55 is from October of 2021, which predates by about a year the release of CUDA 12 that drops support for texture memory. If you really want a55 for some reason, you'd need to compile with cuda 11.8 which had those texture memory features deprecated but not dropped.
>>
>> -Josh 

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Josh Vermaas
vermaasj_at_msu.edu
Assistant Professor, Plant Research Laboratory and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Michigan State University
vermaaslab.github.io