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Subject: Re: : Crystallographic Programs on AMD computers
From: "Edward A {- dot -} Berry" EABerry {- at -} LBL {- dot -} GOV
Date: 2007-04-12

Kay Diederichs wrote:
>
> the CPU (AMD versus Intel) does not play any role for crystallographic
> computing, but you'll have to decide whether you want to install the
> 64bit or the 32bit version of RHEL4.
> 32bit programs run a bit faster on a 64bit operating system, and with a
> 64bit OS you can run programs which require arrays of more than 3.5 GB
> (seldomly needed in xtallography), but you will have to install in
> parallel many 32- and 64bit libraries. This is no problem by itself, but
> quite confusing at first ...
> So I recommend the 32bit version.
>

Any reccommendation for compilers ( c and fortran)?

Probably a dumb question, but is there any advantage in using the
64-bit-aware intel compilers on an AMD processor?

Ed

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