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Hi Jan, Hi Rob, hi Gustavo,

thanks for you answers. I totally missed the thread in the bb and couldn't find anything in the archive.... also the wiki entry - frankly I havn't checked that one for a while ...

Great to know that the CU update solves most of the issues regarding the openMP virtualisation - I also can confirm that here...

Just did a little testing in a virtual machine running Win10CU or Ubuntu 16. The times XDS needed to analyse the Helmholtz #3 MR dataset are below:

Window 10 =  286 sec (mean of 3 trials)
Ubuntu 16  = 293 sec (mean of 3 trials)

I tried to keep the settings of the VM similar, so I guess this will give us a general idea of the speed of XDS on both OSs.... I am suprised that Windows seems (at least in my setting) not to be slower than Linux...

Best,
Jan


Am 24.05.2017 um 09:25 schrieb Kay Diederichs:
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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.