[gmx-developers] Live Visualization of Simulations

[Mark Abraham]

Martin Höfling wrote:
> Hello again,
> 
> I really would like to see some sort of visualization of running simulations. 
> First question would be if there's anybody else working on it to bundle 
> efforts....
> 
> My thougts about it were to implement simple additional "trajectory writing" 
> via xml-rpc to a running xml-rpc enabled pymol session (not necessarily on 
> the same machine). This would introduce dependency of the xml-rpc C library 
> and probably introduces some latencies (...shouldn't be used for long 
> production runs). Do you have any other suggestions or comments about it?

NAMD has some capability along these lines.

Mark