Re: [ccp4bb] Mac pro

2009-01-06 Thread Sabuj Pattanayek
I assume you are waiting for today's announcements of the i7 core MacPro's ? If not wait another 6 hours before deciding to buy something. hrmm, I was hoping store.apple.com was down due to modifications for this new item, it's back up but no new i7 mac pro ..

Re: [ccp4bb] Mac pro

2009-01-06 Thread Nathaniel Echols
> > There are also options for virtualization of Windoze and Linux via the > software Parallels although I have yet to test this out. Parallels is okay; I only use it for testing GUI code on Linux. It doesn't support multiple processors, which probably isn't necessary for most people. The graph

Re: [ccp4bb] Mac pro

2009-01-06 Thread Warren DeLano
, 2009 10:08 AM > To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK > Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] Mac pro > > Hi > > I use Parallels on my Mac at home for both Windows XP and Ubuntu - it > works fine for me when running the more number-crunching parts of CCP4 > - haven't really looked at graphics

Re: [ccp4bb] Mac pro

2009-01-06 Thread Harry Powell
Hi I use Parallels on my Mac at home for both Windows XP and Ubuntu - it works fine for me when running the more number-crunching parts of CCP4 - haven't really looked at graphics programs like Coot & MG. At work I'm running VMWare (Workstation 6.0.0) on a Linux box for Vista, and that, t

Re: [ccp4bb] Mac pro

2009-01-06 Thread Sabuj Pattanayek
with Unix on the Mac. There are also options for virtualization of Windoze and Linux via the software Parallels although I have yet to test this out. If you're trying to purchase a Mac so that you can run MS Office or other Windows only products without dual booting this is no longer necessa

Re: [ccp4bb] Mac pro

2009-01-06 Thread Phil Jeffrey
The Mac Pro is what I use for all my crystallography calculations. The vast majority of programs run, the one major sticking point being the older version of HKL but I believe that HKL2000 may well run on OSX now. I use XDS and/or MOSFLM if I want to reprocess on this machine. With most pa

Re: [ccp4bb] Mac pro

2009-01-06 Thread Derek Logan
I was much more enticed by the proposition of the MacBook Wheel: http://www.theonion.com/content/video/apple_introduces_revolutionary Get your orders in now - there's reportedly a 3-15 month waiting time... Derek ;-) On Jan 6, 2009, week2, at 13:14, JBosch wrote: Hi Sheemel, I assume you are

Re: [ccp4bb] Mac pro

2009-01-06 Thread JBosch
Hi Sheemel, I assume you are waiting for today's announcements of the i7 core MacPro's ? If not wait another 6 hours before deciding to buy something. Jürgen On 6 Jan 2009, at 06:27, Sheemei wrote: Dear all, I am thinking of getting a apple Mac pro desktop computer. I was wondering does

Re: [ccp4bb] Mac pro

2009-01-06 Thread David Briggs
Hi Sheemei. The majority of crystallography programs run under osx, including the Uppsala software factory stuff. Installation has always been very straight forward for me. Bill Scott's webpages will have everything you need to get started. http://sage.ucsc.edu/xtal/ Cheers, David 2009/1/6 Sh

[ccp4bb] Mac pro

2009-01-06 Thread Sheemei
Dear all, I am thinking of getting a apple Mac pro desktop computer. I was wondering does all crystallography programs run on it? I think there are Mac OSX version of CCP4, CNS, SHELX etc. But how about programs in the Uppsala software factory etc?. Also is it difficult to install these p

Re: [ccp4bb] mac pro configuration for crystallographic computing

2007-06-22 Thread mesters
Hi, the FX4500 is what Mac likes to sell to us but in principle the driver should be able to work with any Nvidia card of the same family (quadro FX). These type of cards have hardware openGL implemented on a chip, instead of partly emulating the commands by software. This makes the quadro ca

Re: [ccp4bb] mac pro configuration for crystallographic computing

2007-06-21 Thread Tim Grune
lly trying to do, and as soon as they see what they want to see the make a screen shot (not excluding me here). cheers, Tim -Original Message- From: Tim Grune <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 13:26:54 +1000 Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] mac pro conf

Re: [ccp4bb] mac pro configuration for crystallographic computing

2007-06-20 Thread Tim Grune
On Thursday 21 June 2007 06:50, Juergen Bosch wrote: > I don't have one of those beast in my hands unfortunately. But I can > verify that all except of HKL2000 (which I don't use, so I don't > care/bother to check if there is an OS X version there) of the programs > you mentioned run without any tr

Re: [ccp4bb] mac pro configuration for crystallographic computing

2007-06-20 Thread Juergen Bosch
Gretchen Meinke wrote: Hi-- I last saw some entries on the Mac Pro Xeon dated ~ April 2007. Were they purchased? Are you happy with them? Does ccp4, mosflm, hkl2000, coot run seamlessly on them? If so, what was the final cost and configuration (we would like stereo). How much memory should

[ccp4bb] mac pro configuration for crystallographic computing

2007-06-20 Thread Gretchen Meinke
Hi-- I last saw some entries on the Mac Pro Xeon dated ~ April 2007. Were they purchased? Are you happy with them? Does ccp4, mosflm, hkl2000, coot run seamlessly on them? If so, what was the final cost and configuration (we would like stereo). How much memory should one get? Assuming Nuvisio

Re: [ccp4bb] Mac Pro questions

2007-04-24 Thread Jeff Speir
The Mac Pro I've been using is the standard 4-core 2.67 GHz model with 2 Gb of RAM and the X1900 video card. I've used it for many different tasks, including rendering movies of virus capsid expansion in Chimera, using a multi-threaded and multi-core enabled version of CNS compiled by Dave

Re: [ccp4bb] Mac Pro questions

2007-04-24 Thread Warren DeLano
10:33 AM To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: [ccp4bb] Mac Pro questions Y'all - We are currently contemplating the purchase of a couple of Mac Pros. Apple has three graphics cards available. Initially, I was leaning towards the ATI Radeon X1900 XT 512MB, but read a lot of horror stories ab

[ccp4bb] Mac Pro questions

2007-04-24 Thread Mischa Machius
Y'all - We are currently contemplating the purchase of a couple of Mac Pros. Apple has three graphics cards available. Initially, I was leaning towards the ATI Radeon X1900 XT 512MB, but read a lot of horror stories about that card overheating when taxed. I was wondering if anyone had such