Re: [ccp4bb]: SGI RM7000

["T.J. Greenhough" <t.j.greenhough@phys.keele.ac.uk>]

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Thanks to all who replied, and particularly to Kay Diederichs
who pointed us towards O and sketch_stick. There are indeed 
several problems when running O which result in a complete hang.
Who knows what (or how) other programs might be affected.

We have just had the "downgrade" mod made and the O problems 
appear to be solved.

Trevor


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> Has anyone experienced any difficulties with the SGI RM7000 350mhz
> processor in terms of crystallographic software?
> I gather from SGI that the processor has a problem (machine may hang,
> floating point exceptions may occur) and they will replace with an
> R5000 300mhz and throw an extra 256mb memory in as an apology.
> 
> Has anyone had the "downgrade" done?
> 
> Many thanks for any information
> 
> Trevor Greenhough
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