Re: [AMBER] Which Linux distro for Amber16?

From: Bill Ross <ross.cgl.ucsf.edu>
Date: Tue, 23 May 2017 21:33:47 -0700

You can see sander running live on Ubuntu here - it's been running one
small simulation for about a year:

http://phobrain.com/pr/home/mol.html

Bill


On 5/23/17 9:28 PM, Jason Swails wrote:
> To expand on the post that Hai quoted, that advice was largely aimed at
> answering the question of "what distro should I use for a cluster"? The
> answer for a workstation will often be different.
>
> My advice, choose the newest *stable* version (or perhaps the newest
> long-term maintained stable version) of whatever distro you pick.
>
> The best distro to pick is the one that you are most familiar with and like
> the best.
>
> For example, for me that's Gentoo. For someone that's not very experienced
> (and comfortable) with Linux, Gentoo is a bad choice.
>
> If you're not familiar with any distros, there are several easy distros to
> choose from (and any of them should run Amber fine). Ubuntu is usually a
> good choice for beginning with Linux, as is Fedora. Another thing to take
> into consideration is how much expert help you have around you. If other
> colleagues or support personnel use a specific distro and are willing to
> help you, I'd recommend asking their advice (and valuing it more than what
> you hear here).
>
> HTH,
> Jason
>
> On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 8:00 AM, Hadházi Ádám <hadadam.gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Dear Amber Users,
>>
>>
>>
>> We have purchased a new workstation for molecular modelling:
>>
>>
>>
>> 2x Intel Xeon E5-2630 v4 CPU
>>
>> 3x nVidia GTX 1080TI
>>
>>
>>
>> Which Linux distro do you recommend for Amber16?
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Adam
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