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ITCWeb: Amber README
AMBER (Assisted Model Building with Energy Refinement) Version 7.0, from University of California, is available on the AIX, Solaris, IRIX and Intel Linux platforms. The distribution includes PDF versions of the manual available at /common/amber7/doc Amber 7 continues to include a parallel (MPI) version of sander. The parallel version of gibbs (dropped in Amber 6) has returned, and a parallel version of roar is included as well. Parallel versions of these programs will be installed on request.

AMBER provides several programs which perform energy minimization, molecular dynamics, and analysis of molecular systems. The package consists of several directories under the main /common/amber7 directory. Subdirectories contain executables, data files, documentation, and demos. See the documentation directory for more information on AMBER usedocs For general information on this package, please consult: http://www.amber.ucsf.edu/amber/amber.html

In order to use AMBER, you must set the environment variables PATH and AMBERHOME as follows: 

 ksh users: 
PATH=$PATH:/common/amber7/exe
AMBERHOME=/common/amber7; export AMBERHOME
      or
  csh users: 
set path=($path /common/amber7/exe)
setenv AMBERHOME /common/amber7
ITC provides only limited support and assistance for AMBER. Limited assistance is available via e-mail to res-consult@virginia.edu