2. Installation and activation
To install the VEGA ZZ package, you must execute Vega_XX_Win32.exe file following the
simple installation wizard. If your operating system is Windows NT 4, Windows
2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, you must have
the administrator rights.
If your system has got a software firewall, you must configure it granting the
network access to REBOL.exe, otherwise the scripting system doesn't work because
it uses the standard TCP/IP communication ports.
After the installation, run VEGA ZZ to begin the activation procedure needed to
unlock the software. The activation is totally FREE:
Follow the procedure reported in the window:
Please remember that the activation key is generated starting from the product key. The product and the activation keys are personal and they work with a specific PC/workstation only. You can't activate more than one PCs with the same activation key because each PC has a different and unique product key. The activation expires after 1 year for non-profit academic users and after 30 days for business companies. After this time it's possible to request another activation key. The two activation types can be selected during the registration procedure. The Authors can change the licensing method in any time on their own decision. The business companies can't access to the collaborative support without purchasing the Support Pack (available requesting to the Authors): help or new feature requests will be trashed if they are from companies without Support Pack. The Authors spent a lot of time to develop a software that, in some cases, includes better performances than several commercial packages. We request a little contribution to the companies in order to continue the VEGA ZZ project otherwise destined to end in the near future.
2.1 Installation of optional components
The optional components require VEGA ZZ pre-installed on your PC. Some of them aren't included because they may be not useful for everybody and/or require a separate license agreement.
The HyperDrive library, that is the calculation core of VEGA, can take full advantages of the OpenCL enabled devices (GPU and accelerators). Although your PC has OpenCL device, it may be necessary to enable its support, installing the suitable drivers. For more information about the OpenCL installation, click here. The performance boost could be amazing as reported in the following test:
System configuration:
AMD Phenom II X4 955 quad core 3.2 GHz, 4 Gb DDR3 Ram, Sapphire/ATI HD5770 1 Gb DDR5 PCIe card
Software for the test:
Windows 7 Professional x64, VEGA ZZ 2.4.0, HyperDrive 2.0 for K8 and more CPUs.
Type of test:
MEP surface calculation (Type: MEP, Dots, Probe Rad: 0, Density: 10) of the inositol monophosphate dehydrogenase (8598 atoms) which file name is impdh.pdb.bz2 and it's placed in the ...\VEGA ZZ\DemoZZ directory.
Test results:
The results are approximated and indicative for the performance boost.
Calculation mode |
Time (seconds) |
OpenCL GPU | ~1 |
OpenCL CPU (GPU emulation) | 11 |
CPU 4 cores | 28 |
CPU 3 cores | 37 |
CPU 2 cores | 56 |
CPU 1 core | 111 |
VEGA ZZ Live CD Creator is a software developed to create live distributions
starting from the VEGA ZZ files installed in your PC. A live distribution is an
auto-starting CD or pen drive that allows to use VEGA ZZ without
installation and activation. In this way, you are able to use VEGA everywhere.
To install it, you must follow these steps:
2.1.3 Mopac2007 and Mopac2009 installation
The VEGA ZZ package includes Mopac 7.01-4 for the semi-empirical
calculation, but it's possible to use the latest Mopac 2009 that if
correctly installed, is automatically detected by VEGA ZZ. For copyright
reasons, Mopac2009 isn't included in the package but it can be obtained at
http://openmopac.net.
Please follow these steps for a correct installation:
WARNING:
If you install both Mopac 2007 and Mopac 2009, VEGA ZZ gives the priority to the
newest one and so Mopac 2009 will be used.
NAMD is a parallel molecular dynamics code designed for high-performance simulation of large biomolecular systems. VEGA ZZ includes a nice graphic interface making easy the use of this powerful package. Installation procedure: