Kevin,
Ouch, didn't know about that! Slightly worrying as I am about to take
delivery of a new machine with 4GB of ram, and hence will *need* a 64
bit OS :o(
Will a 32 bit compiled coot work on this system?
Here's hoping,
Graeme
2008/11/18 Kevin Cowtan <[log in to unmask]>:
> 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
>>
>>
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