And I would give exactly the opposite advice, unless you are or have a
guru who can devote time to fixing all the little things which still
don't work under 64 bit OSs.
(Does anyone else have any clues on why 64-bit compiled coot can't
calculate a map? I need to look into it, but have a huge backlog of work
at the moment.)
Kay Diederichs wrote:
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
