Platforms on which NAMD will currently run

NAMD should be portable to any parallel platform with a modern C++ compiler to which Charm and Converse have been ported. Precompiled NAMD 3.0 binaries are available for download for the following platforms:

• Linux on x86_64 processors
• Linux with NVIDIA GPUs (CUDA)
• Mac OS X on Intel and ARM processors
• Windows 10 and 11 supported by running Linux x86_64 builds (both CPU-only and CUDA) using WSL2 (Windows Subsystem for Linux)

Regarding Windows support, we note that community benchmarks have shown faster NAMD performance when using WSL2 versus a native build.

NAMD may be compiled for the following additional platforms:

• Linux or AIX on POWER processors
• Linux on ARM processors
• Linux on ARM or POWER processors with NVIDIA GPUs (CUDA)
• Linux on x86_64 processors with AMD GPUs (HIP/ROCm)
• Linux on x86_64 processors with Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors (MIC)