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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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 >> >> >
