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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