Chimera does not use CUDA. It only uses the GPU for graphics (e.g. lighting with GLSL fragment shaders). Frames rendered per second is usually limited by GPU speed in Chimera, but setting up scenes (loading molecular models, computing surfaces, ...) is limited by CPU speed.

Tom

Hi Sir,

I would like to get help from you to confirm whether Chimera use GPU accelerating function.

I have a customer and they are using Chimera:

Customer: Institute of Biophysics of China

Platform: Dell 5500 workstation, Windows VISTA 64bit OS, FX4800 , Quadro driver version : 259.81,

Application: UCSF Chimera 1.5 for protein molecule analysis

Status: Chimera for 64bit OS , the graphic 3D performance would be 5 times fast than Chimera for 32bit OS in VISTA64

Need to check: Whether Chimera using CUDA/GPU accelerating function

Best Regards,

Allan Hou(侯宇涛）

Enterprise Account Sales Manager

Nvidia China

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