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Running NAMD

NAMD currently runs on network of HP, Sun, SGI, and Linux workstations, as well as Cray T3E, IBM SP3, and SGI-CRAY Origin 2000 machines. On network of workstations, a ``host program'' (called conv-host) is needed to launch NAMD on individual workstations in the network. This host program is included with the distribution. The general command line syntax for invoking NAMD on each of these platforms is:
<hostprog> namd2 <config-file> +pN
Where <config-file> is the name of the configuration file. And N is the number of processors to be used for execution.



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