Andreas,
Thank you very much! That was very helpful.
Sincerely,
Fangyu
----- Original Message -----
From: Andreas Svrcek-Seiler <svrci.tbi.univie.ac.at>
Date: Sunday, July 4, 2004 5:24 am
Subject: Re: AMBER: best PC laptop system to run Amber 8
> Hi,
> > Please advise what PC laptop system(cpu type, cpu
speed,
> > ram size, Linux brand, etc.) is best to run Amber 8,
since
> > I am trying to buy a platform soon.
> ...The faster the better, the more memory, the
better :-) Anything with a
> fast Pentium4 or Athlon(64) processor will work and
outpace slightly older
> single processor desktop machines. Athlon64 laptops are
*very* fast, but
> x86_64 linux distributions (I'm running fedora core 2
x86_64)
> seem slightly less developed than their 32 bit cousins
and you'd need
> some expensive fortran90 capable compiler to compile
AMBER for that
> machine and make use of the 64 bit architecture (which
is not guaranteed
> to yield a speedup anyway - in the non-representative
cases where I
> compared the speedup was significant).
>
> In principle: Most applications of AMBER (and similar)
> run for long times and produce lots of heat, not to
speak of
> huge amounts of data (= hard disk space). So in general
I'd not recommend
> a laptop as an AMBER workhorse. Desktop machines are
cheaper (for the
> same performance) and you can add hardware (e.g. extra
disks) easily.
>
> If you're sure about choosing a laptop, have a look at
> http://www.linux-laptop.net to see on which machines
linux can be
> installed easily. Then make sure the brand you'd like
offers
> good support in case of hardware failure. Don't choose
the cheapest
> extra fast laptop just because it has a Prescott.3.4 GHz
built in.
> As for the distribution: Fedora(-Redhat) is ok, freely
available and quite
> easy to install.
> Have a look at http://www.linuxiso.org to see what's
around for free.
> Hope that helps,
> regards
> Andreas
>
> P.S.: Now I've forgotten PentiumM/Dothan laptops. I
haven't ever tested
> one, but at 2GHz, they might be quite fast too and
consume less power.
> However, they are more expensive than those mentioned
above.
>
>
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