From: Shane N. <sha...@gm...> - 2012-06-13 18:32:07
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Hi, Does anyone use pymol for very large structures, such as a full virus 60-mer capsid? If so, what processing power, memory, graphics card, etc. do you need to render these large files and manipulate them without any slowing? PyMol takes about 1 minute to think after trying to spin one of these full capsids, and that is on a dual-core 8gb ram laptop. Is a 12-core mac like this overkill? http://store.apple.com/us_smb_78313/configure/MD771LL/A<https://mail.ohsu.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=a84e20fef7e04111bec08a76775f0093&URL=http%3a%2f%2fstore.apple.com%2fus_smb_78313%2fconfigure%2fMD771LL%2fA> Has anyone built other machines to do this sort of work? Appreciate your input, Shane Neeleu |