Re: [ccp4bb] buying a cluster

2018-12-01 Thread graeme.win...@diamond.ac.uk
HI James, Re: dissenting opinion I suspect that this conclusions depends very closely on (i) the shape of the problem and (ii) the extent to which the binary has been optimised for the given platform. I am pretty sure that there are some applications (heavily threaded, making extensive use o

Re: [ccp4bb] Apple deprecating OpenGL

2018-12-01 Thread graeme.win...@diamond.ac.uk
Hi Rob, I would think that this phrase is the key one: "The move will mean that, while applications and games developed with OpenGL and OpenCL will continue to run, they will almost certainly become increasingly unreliable.” Given that (IIUC) most crystallographic software uses pretty basic op

[ccp4bb] Apple deprecating OpenGL

2018-12-01 Thread R. D. Oeffner
Hi, I'm sure many of you have heard that Apple is deprecating OpenGL on MacOS with the Metal API being their alternative. https://www.v3.co.uk/v3-uk/news/3033587/apple-deprecates-opengl-and-opencl-from-macos-1014-mojave Do people think this is really going to happen and that they will not try