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On Friday 26 May 2006 11:45 am, Christina Bourne wrote: > > Prior to purchasing a computer with an AMD Turion 64 > ML-40 processor, I was wondering if there were any > issues running Linux (SuSe or Ubantu) and packages > common to crystallography (ccp4, cns, o etc.)? I don't know of any issues with the processor or the packages per se, but we continue to suffer problems with 64-bit code produced by gfortran. To be specific, the LAPACK library is in our experience unreliable when compiled with gfortran for AMD 64-bit. It may be possible to work around the compiler bugs with a proper set of compile options, but if so we have not yet found them :-( Several bugfixes relating to this are apparently slated for the next release of gfortran, but I don't know when they will percolate into the various linux distributions. I also don't know whether they fix the specific problems we've been having. -- Ethan A Merritt Biomolecular Structure Center University of Washington, Seattle WA
