On Monday, December 6, 2004, at 11:43 AM, John Tamine wrote:
yes, i've thought of that, especially since the application i'm talking about is macspartan (ab initio molecular modeling, if that means anything to the list), and a single command can easily require 72 hrs of CPU time to execute with this set-up.
Heck, then don't stop at an older G4...this is massively CPU intensive stuff. I would go for as much computation power you can scrape up, and an OS X-upgraded 7600 isn't gonna cut it, no way.
If you're serious, start looking for a G5.
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