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hello friends,<BR>
Based on the benchmarking of gromacs on various processors I am planning to buy a opteron 2xdual core system to perform MD simulation. I am giving the configuration below please give your comments on the operating system that is best suited. Whether to use Fedora core4 or Enterprise Linux. <BR>
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CPU - 2 AMD Opteron model 285 Dual-Core 2.6Ghz x2 <BR>
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Memory - 4gb Memory DDR-400 ECC Registered (4x1024mb, 2 for each&nbsp; processor) x4 <BR>
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Hard Drive(s) - Seagate 300 Gb SATA (NCQ) <BR>
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Video - XFX 7800GT 256mb Dual DVI<BR>
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Operating System - ?<BR>
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Thanking you<BR>
Jayant James<BR>

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Jayasundar Jayant&nbsp;James <br>
Postdoctoral research&nbsp;fellow, <br>
Department of&nbsp;Veterinary and&nbsp;Comparative Anatomy,&nbsp;Pharmacology and&nbsp;Physiology(VCAPP), Washington&nbsp;state university,&nbsp;Pullman 99164-6520,&nbsp;USA. <br>
http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0001/0001_01.asp <br>
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