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Subject: Re: advice regarding computer hardware purchase
From: Kay Diederichs kay {- dot -} diederichs {- at -} UNI-KONSTANZ {- dot -} DE
Date: 2008-04-01
Chu-Young Kim schrieb:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I have not done much crystallography in the past five years but I'm
> trying to get back into it now because we stumbled upon a very
> interesting enzyme. It seems a lot has changed in the computer hardware
> world. I was trained on an SGI back in graduate school. What kind of
> hardware should I purchase to run all the popular crystallography
> software? Also, which operating system will give me the least headache?
> We are basically starting from scratch. Our department has a new Bruker
> machine and an older Rigaku we can use. Any advice you may have will be
> greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance for your comments.
>
> Chu-Young Kim

Hi,

we've just bought 4 Dell Vostro 400 MT for the lab, at a price of about 600,-€ a
piece (this includes quadcore Q6600 CPUs, 3GB of memory, a big disk and NVidia
8600 GTS graphics; additionally they need a GB ethernet PCI card for 5-10 €).
I've tested the machines - they are very fast concerning CPU, disk and graphics.

Like for most new hardware, make sure you switch the SATA adapter to RAID mode
(default is IDE mode) in the BIOS before you install Linux.

We install CentOS-5 - see
http://strucbio.biologie.uni-konstanz.de/ccp4wiki/index.php/CentOS

HTH,

Kay
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email: Kay.Diederichs@uni-konstanz.de Tel +49 7531 88 4049 Fax 3183
Fachbereich Biologie, Universität Konstanz, Box M647, D-78457 Konstanz


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