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On Wednesday 17 January 2007 10:48, Harry Powell wrote:
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> Installing crystallographic software shouldn't be a problem on an AMD
> Opteron.
Agreed. No problems here except for badness in 64-bit LAPACK.
But that is independent of AMD/Intel chipset.
> But if you have a choice, you might want to install a different
> OS than RedHate. SUSE & Ubuntu seem to be better choices at the moment.
I agree here also; I would not choose RHEL.
My vote goes for Mandriva, but SuSE is roughly equivalent.
Ethan
> > We are trying to get a server with dual AMD Opteron 2200SE CPUs running
> > Redhat ES4 OS. Does anybody have experience on compiling
> > crystallographic programs such as ccp4, cns....on AMD powered machines?
> > Will it be a problem? Or we should stay with Intel Xeon servers?
>
> Harry
