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Gunnar Olovsson wrote:
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Hi everyone,
We are buying new Linux workstations (Fedora or RH Enterprise Linux) that
should be able to run 'nicely' most(!) stereo graphics modeling & other
macromolecular crystallographic software.
I would really appreciate any suggestions/comments/feedback on the
suitability/compatibility of the hardware we are considering:
Intel Xeon Server/Workstation
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... Intel SE7525GP2 Server Board w/
Dual Channel RAID 0 or 1, Onboard Video & 1Gb Network Onboard
... 2 x Intel Xeon 3Ghz CPU
... 2 x 512MB Kingston Reg. ECC RAM
Thank you all for the feedback!
Gunnar :^)
Gunnar,
I can confirm that RHEL is a good choice as an OS (we use Centos-3 and
-4 here). AMD Dual-Core CPUs appear to give more performance, at lower
prices. 1GB memory is enough for 99% of crystallographic calculations.
You can have RAID-0 and -1 easily with the Linux md software RAID on any
motherboard; most of the solutions that are advertised as RAID are
actually "fake RAID" - i.e. the driver (under Windows) makes the drives
appear as RAID to the OS.
I doubt though that you will get Stereo from the onboard graphics;
you'll need to buy Nvidia Quadro cards.
HTH,
Kay
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