AMBER Archive (2007)

Subject: Re: AMBER: Hardware recommendations please

From: Jeremy Weedon (Jeremy.Weedon_at_downstate.edu)
Date: Thu Jun 07 2007 - 10:24:54 CDT


Thank you. Please pardon the ignorant question, but is it ridiculous to
consider trying to run Amber on a single PC?

JW

Knut Langsetmo <knut_at_bbri.org> wrote on 06/06/2007 01:16:10 PM:

> hello jeremy,
>
> for the best bang for the buck, you might check out:
> http://www.symmetriccomputing.com/
>
> with shared memory and infiniband interconnects you can get good
> performance scaling with additional cpus (as opposed to the problems
> with scaling on multiple cpus with ethernet connections, currently being
> discussed on the list).
>
> On Jun 6, 2007, at 12:15 PM, Jeremy Weedon wrote:
>
>
> Hi folks,
>
> We're brand new to Amber, some hardware advice would be much
> appreciated. We plan to install to a desktop PC, probably running
> some variety of Linux. We need to figure out what make/model, how
> much RAM, how much diskspace, whether we need RAID, multiple CPUs
> etc. Are some Linux distros more suitable than others? Should we
> invest in a high-end graphics board?
>
> TIA,
>
> Jeremy Weedon, Ph.D.
> Senior Statistician
> Scientific Computing Center
> State University of New York
> Downstate Medical Center Box 7
> Brooklyn NY 11213
> +1 (718) 270-7424
>
> --knut
>
> Boston Biomedical Research Institute... Today's Research for
> Tomorrow's Health.
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