Dear Anna,you didn't ask about that, but I would definitely recommend a 64bit operating system.
My specific recommendations are mostly in the articles "Computer_hardware" and "CentOS", to be found under the more general topic "Xtal_computing" of the CCP4 wiki (<http://strucbio.biologie.uni-konstanz.de/ccp4wiki/index.php/Xtal_computing>)
HTH, Kay Anna S Gardberg schrieb:
Dear list,I haven't seen the "crystallographic computing platform" thread come up for a while, and I've got a chance to upgrade my desktop to a workstation, so I thought I'd ask the CCP4BB for advice on:1. Mac vs. Linux (which flavor?) vs. Windows 2. Graphics cards 3. Displays 4. Processors - multiple processors, multiple cores? Speed?About half of what I do involves ~1.0 A X-ray structures - data processing, rebuilding in Coot, refinement, and so forth - so my current desktop (Optiplex GX745, Radeon X1300) machine drags on graphics sometimes. I don't seem to need stereo these days, for what it's worth.Anybody have suggestions or specs they'd like to share? Thanks in anticipation of your advice.Regards, Anna Gardberg
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