I'm running home-built Ubuntu boxes with old, plain-vanilla CPUs (e.g.,
Q9300 or core i3/i5/i7) and 6-8Gbyte of RAM, and a cheap Nvidia video
card (e.g. GT 9xxx or GT 620).This is more than sufficient to do routine
structure solution. Any contemporary desktop or laptop computer should
be sufficient, although if running Linux I have not had good luck with
integrated Intel graphics. (If you want stereo display, you have to
choose a compatible graphics card and video monitor.) It's not like the
old days, where you needed special, dedicated hardware (remember Silicon
Graphics?) to get the graphics and computing performance required.
Current technology is more than sufficient for routine work.
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Roger S. Rowlett
Gordon & Dorothy Kline Professor
Department of Chemistry
Colgate University
13 Oak Drive
Hamilton, NY 13346
tel: (315)-228-7245
ofc: (315)-228-7395
fax: (315)-228-7935
email: rrowl...@colgate.edu
On 11/11/2014 8:27 AM, abhishek jamwal wrote:
Dear ccp4 bb members,
I need to buy a desktop workstation for the purpose of running
crystallography related applications. I have short-listed HP's Z420
and Dell's T7600, I chose this because their configuration description
looks impressive (8 cores, 16 threads, 3.6 GHz processor etc.).
However, I have no practical idea about their performance.
Can anyone , who has experience with these workstations comment on
performance ? And whether these workstations are optimal/suboptimal
for the desired purpose ?
what other options do I have apart from dell and hp ? Please suggest.
*Is desktop iMac a good option for this purpose ?*
many thanx in advance
abhishek
