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Hi Jan, Rob, it is documented in XDSwiki at http://strucbio.biologie.uni-konstanz.de/xdswiki/index.php/Installation#Windows - I just added the hints concerning the Creators Update (can anybody verify that OpenMP parallelization works with that??). best, Kay On Tue, 23 May 2017 14:06:54 +0100, R.D. Oeffner <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > >Hi Jan, > >There were some postings on the bulletin board about this in the latter >half of August last year. I also recall problems with the parallel >version of XDS but I think this was fixed by Microsoft in a patch that I >believe is included in the recent Creators update to Windows 10. Can't >verify this right now as the XDS download site appears to be offline. >But will do so when I get home. > >Rob > >On 23/05/2017 12:52, Jan Gebauer wrote: > >> Dear XDS users, >> >> I haven't read anything about this here, but probably I missed it: >> >> With the relatively new "Windows Subsystem for Linux" you can "natively" (i.e. without an virtual machine) run XDS on Windows 10. >> >> In theory it should have a similar performance than on a native Linux System. However, currently I wasn't able to get the parrallised version (xds_par) to work - which negates the potential speed advantage over an virtual machine. >> >> In principle XDS-GUI is also working with some tricks... but it is a little bit buggy... >> >> I haven't tested other suites yet nor carefully checked the output, so be carefull. >> >> With kind regards, >> >> Jan >> >> PS: Before anyone wonders: I DO use Linux normally, however on my small ulltrabook it could be useful for satisfying my curiosity on the trip back form the synchrotron. > >