On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 07:15:03PM +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote: > Unlike CPU machines, where the computational software is "stable", > with CUDA support the situation is highly experimental, changes > rapidly and has requirements of recent OS support. New versions of > NAMD every few weeks and even night builds. One of the goals is to > have even energies computed by GPU. That to say that I would have no > objection to install wheezy unless it is too much an adventure. It > might well be that a new version of NAMD comes soon with requirements > of libraries not available in squeeze. Finally, NAMD would be the only > application installed on this dedicated machine so that if dramatic > problems occur, there will be little to reinstall. I imagine that > amd64 RAID1 support will be at least as good as with lenny. In this > case, perhaps, hardware RAID1 would be better but it is too expensive. > > I plan to change from lenny to squeeze with the CPU workstation. > Quantum mechanics unlike classical mechanics has no CUDA support yet > (except with very expensive proprietary software, if it works at all).
Well most of the time testing is quite usable, so wheezy is not a bad option. It would give you much newer nvidia drivers and cuda stuff easily. RAID1 and such will work exactly the same in all the versions. -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
