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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Mon Mar 05 2001 - 15:17:19 CST
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Dear VMD-L,
We have just made a pre-release version of VMD 1.6.1 available
for download. Here's a brief summary of changes since VMD 1.6.
We're hoping to release a VMD 1.6.1 in a slightly shorter-than-usual
development cycle in order to release new features we're working on.
We appreciate any feedback you would like to give on this pre-release
version, and we intend to make further improvements before 1.6.1 is
finalized.
Enjoy,
John Stone
vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
What's new in VMD 1.6.1?
------------------------
New Features
o Some builds of VMD now support multiprocessor acceleration and
multithreading for improved I/O performance even on uniprocessors.
o Multithreaded IMD socket I/O for improved performance on high latency
networks and with slow simulations.
o New "getbonds" and "setbonds" commands for Tcl and Python
atom selections. Replaces older "bond" command.
General Improvements and Bug Fixes
o Tcl atomselect speed increased by 10-30x for large molecules for
numeric selections. String-based selections slightly slower, but
a good improvement for the common performance intensive use-cases.
o Increased speed of "lines" representation drawing and animation by
a factor of 3, allowing interactive rotation of huge systems in lines
mode (4 million atom water box at 2 seconds per frame.)
o Increased the number of colors in the color scale map from 16 to 1024.
o Fixed PRs: 134, 136, 139, 140, 141, 145, 148
o Fixed a minor EOF failure in G96 file reader
User Interface Changes
o None at this time.
User Documentation Updates
o very minor corrections and updates.
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