[gmx-users] What's the best distribution for gromacs?

[Stéphane Teletchéa]

Stéphane Teletchéa a écrit :
> Bruno Reboredo a écrit :
> 
>> Hi,
>> I'm new here.
>> I have a Athlon 64 3700+. What's linux distribution I would have to 
>> use to run gromacs? I will run heavy Molecular Dynamics.
>>  
>> Thank you,
>> Bruno Reboredo
>>
> 
> Since i'm a Mandriva fan for years, i'd recommend using Mandriva 2006. 
> It has a full 64-bit system (including compiler) and i've successfully 
> used it for benchmarking gromacs on 64-bits mode. It has also gcc 4.0 
> and gcc3.4.3 so you can use one of them in order to get optimal 
> performance.
> 
> You'll probalby be happy already with the download version but you can 
> also consider the packs which include support.
> 
> You're wellcome :-)
> Stéphane
> 

If you don't want to compile it by yourself (which will be may be a 
tradeoff on performance), you'll find the already compiled code :

  gromacs: 3.2.1-1mdk in contrib current for i586

Stéphane

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