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 2.8b3 binaries are available for download for the following platforms:

• Windows (XP, etc.) on x86 processors
• Mac OS X on PowerPC and Intel processors
• Linux on x86, x86-64, and Itanium processors
• SGI Altix (with MPI)
• AIX on POWER processors (with and without MPI)
• Solaris on Sparc and x86-64 processors

NAMD has been ported to the Cray XT for both Catamount and compute-node Linux, but the lack of dynamic linking on this platform often results in the need to recompile NAMD after system upgrades so we are unable to distribute useful binaries.

NAMD has been ported to the IBM Blue Gene L and P, but we do not have regular access to these machines. Binaries provided by IBM may be available for download from our website.