64-bit Snow Leopard support
Mac users-- The latest nightly version of Phenix (dev-532) is now capable of compiling 64-bit objects on Snow Leopard, which should help those of you working on very large and/or high-resolution structures. You will need to use the source installer for this; it will automatically recognize the machine type as "mac-intel-osx-x86_64" and use the correct sources. There are several things to be aware of before trying this: 1. I had to switch to the development version of wxPython to get the GUI working, and it's both inherently less stable and based on fundamentally different OS libraries, which may cause problems. I've fixed some of the most obvious issues and everything appears to run now, but I expect to find more glitches. (This shouldn't affect command-line users.) 2. We haven't extensively tested 64-bit Phenix on Mac; there may be undiagnosed low-level bugs, even for command-line-only use. This should change soon. 3. For the above reasons, and because source installation is generally difficult to support, we recommend that you continue to use the 32-bit binary installer if you are not experiencing memory problems. (It will figure out what you are trying to do and correct the machine type accordingly.) 4. One side effect of this change is that an installation made on Leopard will not work on Snow Leopard, and vice-versa. I may be able to fix this. Hopefully there will be a binary installer in the near future, if I can ever figure out how to fix NFS on my workstation. -Nat
Thank you Nat for the wonderful news. I am still working on the high resolution structure (1.3 Angstroms) with ~ 2000 residues. I use Mac only. With 64bit version I will be able to finish it Some remarks: a. Leopard is passe due to problems with X11 (probably not related to Phenix), so don't bother. Who knows what cat version is in the barrel of APPLE. It will be out soon (information). b. Changing versions of Python may brake other applications. c. thank you for making this brave step to 64bit Mac d. we will wait ;-) FF Dr Felix Frolow Professor of Structural Biology and Biotechnology Department of Molecular Microbiology Apple and Biotechnology Tel Aviv University 69978, Israel Acta Crystallographica F, co-editor e-mail: [email protected] Tel: ++972-3640-8723 Fax: ++972-3640-9407 Cellular: 0547 459 608 On Sep 15, 2010, at 19:30 , Nathaniel Echols wrote:
Mac users--
The latest nightly version of Phenix (dev-532) is now capable of compiling 64-bit objects on Snow Leopard, which should help those of you working on very large and/or high-resolution structures. You will need to use the source installer for this; it will automatically recognize the machine type as "mac-intel-osx-x86_64" and use the correct sources. There are several things to be aware of before trying this:
1. I had to switch to the development version of wxPython to get the GUI working, and it's both inherently less stable and based on fundamentally different OS libraries, which may cause problems. I've fixed some of the most obvious issues and everything appears to run now, but I expect to find more glitches. (This shouldn't affect command-line users.)
2. We haven't extensively tested 64-bit Phenix on Mac; there may be undiagnosed low-level bugs, even for command-line-only use. This should change soon.
3. For the above reasons, and because source installation is generally difficult to support, we recommend that you continue to use the 32-bit binary installer if you are not experiencing memory problems. (It will figure out what you are trying to do and correct the machine type accordingly.)
4. One side effect of this change is that an installation made on Leopard will not work on Snow Leopard, and vice-versa. I may be able to fix this.
Hopefully there will be a binary installer in the near future, if I can ever figure out how to fix NFS on my workstation.
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Nat Thanks for your work on this.. we actually have one mac mini in the lab that runs snow leopard. However with any news on Mac support of Phenix, I'd like to chime in and request that you keep the PPC binaries alive ! :) F On Sep 15, 2010, at 11:30 AM, Nathaniel Echols wrote:
Mac users--
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However with any news on Mac support of Phenix, I'd like to chime in and request that you keep the PPC binaries alive ! :)
These will continue to be available as long as our PPC machine stays alive - there is some skepticism here about how long that will be, but the last few months have been okay. -Nat
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