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-----Original Message----- From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:ccp...@jiscmail.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Ian Tickle Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 6:25 AM To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: [ccp4bb] Processing compressed diffraction images? All - No doubt this topic has come up before on the BB: I'd like to ask about the current capabilities of the various integration programs (in practice we use only MOSFLM & XDS) for reading compressed diffraction images from synchrotrons. A... cluster: the disk I/O is the bottleneck. Now you could argue that we should spread the load over more disks or maybe spend more on faster disk controllers, but the whole point about disks is they're cheap, we don't need the extra I/O bandwidth for anything else, and you shouldn't need to spend a fortune, particularly if there are ways of making the software more efficient, which after all will benefit everyone. Cheers -- Ian
