On Mar 6, 2006, at 11:58 AM, Greg Couch wrote:

Chimera uses a lot of memory, so 2GB is reasonable for 2 cpus -- if you're

displaying volume data, you will want more, if your displaying huge

molecules, you'll want more. You'll also want more memory if you have

other programs running at the same time. Memory is fairly cheap, so get

a lot.

Don't mean to scare you off here. While Chimera does use a lot of memory, 512MB is fine for many types of analyses. If you are working on ribosome-size structures, or many (20+) smaller structures -- or large volumetric data sets -- then you would want to increase your memory to 1-2+ GB.

--Eric

Eric Pettersen

UCSF Computer Graphics Lab

pett@cgl.ucsf.edu

http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu