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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