These pages are provided as a tool for structural biologists interested in using the Apple/Macintosh as a platform for scientific computing. We believe that with OS X and the newer Apple Computing hardware, the Macintosh platform is a strong candidate for both desktop and performance/scientific computing applications.
The benchmarks provided on these pages are not meant to show the strengths or weaknesses of one computing platform over another. Rather, these benchmarks were tabulated to highlight some of the performance benefits we've been able to obtain by leveraging the unique hardware capabilities of the G4/G5 systems. Most important, these pages were designed to help show that the current G5 systems are at the very least on par with other workstation/server class systems such as those possessing Opteron or Xeon processors.
Software that we have performance tuned (and report here) is available for download as precompiled binaries for your use. Before downloading any software from this site, you must agree to the licensing terms of the original authors of the software (when appropriate).
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 | Featured Project SBGrid G5 (w/ Dials) The SBGid G5 is a workstation class system ideal for structural biology work. The workstation consists of the following hardware: |
