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