VMD is a molecular visualization program for building, displaying, and analyzing large biomolecular systems using 3-D graphics and built-in scripting. One of the key advancements included in VMD 1.8.7 is support for GPU-accelerated visualization and analysis, based on CUDA. VMD uses CUDA to accelerate several of its most computationally demanding algorithms, with additional modules planned for GPU acceleration in upcoming releases. Typical GPU acceleration factors for the algorithms in VMD are: electrostatics 22x to 44x, implicit ligand sampling 20x to 30x, molecular orbital calculation 100x to 120x.