Hi Calvin,
Our web sites are back up now.  For running Chimera on a server, it depends what you will be doing with Chimera.  If you will be running Chimera-command or Python scripts that don't save images, you can use any version with the --nogui flag.  If you will be running scripts that do save images, you can only do that with the "headless" Linux version.  If users will be trying to run Chimera from the server and remoting their display to their client, that will be very difficult to get to work (assuming the remoting is via the X protocol).  It rarely works unless both the client and the server have the same graphics card, and since your server has no graphics card...

--Eric

Eric Pettersen
UCSF Computer Graphics Lab


On Oct 21, 2020, at 9:24 AM, Calvin Dodge <cdodge@x-iss.com> wrote:

Hello,
 
I have been trying to find out what the hardware requirements are for Chimera.  For example, how can it be run in a cluster environment with CUDA cards, but no Nvidia graphics cards?
 
My search for information has been hampered by an apparent failure or reorganization of the main site -https://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/
Every internal link from that page (like to Downloads) is broken.
 
Will the broken links be fixed?  Is another page the preferred one for Chimera? Do I need the OSMesa version to run without graphics cards?
 
Thanks,
 
Calvin Dodge
 
 
Calvin Dodge
Systems Analyst
Office:  832-271-7148
Smart Management and Analytics for Clusters
 
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