Hi Akshay,

  Chimera does not use multiple threads (with exception of a few cases like watching for a file system hang) and there is no way to enable additional multithreading.  We are interested in allowing use of multiple cores for specific compute intensive tasks.  What specific functions in Chimera do you find slow?  If the rendering is slow (rotating models is jerky) that is a limitation of the GPU which is already heavily multithreaded if you have a modern graphics card (some GPUs have 800 cores).

    Tom


Dear Sir / Madam,

I use chimera 1.5 regularly for protein studies on a Quad core machine with Nvidia graphics running Ubuntu. However, the application does not support multi-threading and hence, runs quite slow. Is it possible to enable multi-threading in the existing release or will such a version of chimera be released in the near future?

Regards,
 
Akshay Kumar Ganguly

Research Fellow,
Structural and Computational Biology Group,
International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology,
New Delhi, India