The TCBG Workshop Tutorials require up-to-date hardware, operating systems, andsoftware versions. Minimum requirements for laptops are provided below.Configurations that vary from the requirements may function poorly, or not at all.
Xquartz Unable To Open Display
Released in 2011 and 2012, Mac OS X Lion and OS X Mountain Lion were the last paid software updates for the Mac. Ten years ago, users needed to pay Apple $19.99 for the latest version of its OS X. 0.2b CP2K Installation on Mac OS X Visit sourceforge CP2K project page and download cp2k-2.6.2.tar.bz2. Unpack the compressed tar.bz2 file by using the following command from the Apple terminal. $ xmgrace Tips: - on Mac OS X Lion, wget doesn't work. Use curl -O instead of wget. if in the last step, when you try to run xmgrace, you get the following error: $ xmgrace Can't open display Failed initializing GUI, exiting you can try: $ DISPLAY=:0.0 xmgrace if it doesn’t solve the problem, you need to open XQuartz and then enter the.
This list below will be updated as more information is available.
Hardware Requirements
Windows
Operating System: Windows Vista, XP or 2000
Memory: 512 MB RAM
Processor: Pentium 4 2.4 Ghz CPU (or comparable)
Graphics card: nVidia Geforce Ti4600, or comparable
Mac
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.3 or greater
Memory: 512 MB RAM
Processor: G4 Processor or any Intel Mac
Graphics card: Macintosh computers often come with sufficient graphics processing power, so no additional card is necessary
Linux
Operating System: Any reliable Linux distribution released within the last three years.
Memory: 512 MB RAM
Processor: Pentium 4 2.4 Ghz CPU (or comparable)
Graphics card: nVidia Geforce Ti4600, or comparable
Please note the above are bare minimum requirements; more power and memory is desirable for all the above systems. For example, 512 MB RAM on a Mac will be functional, but very slow-going through the tutorials!
Software Requirements
Visual Molecular Dynamics - VMD For molecular modelling, the tutorials use VMD. You can download the latest version of VMD for your operating system from http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Development/Download/download.cgi?PackageName=VMD. See the User and Installation guides for installation instructions. Nanoscale Molecular Dynamics - NAMD For numerical simulation, the tutorials use NAMD. You can download the latest version of NAMD for your operating system from http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Development/Download/download.cgi?PackageName=NAMD. See the NAMD User's Guide for installation and usage instructions. Plotting Program For some tutorials, a program for plotting graphs is necessary. Some recommended utilities include:
Windows: Excel
Unix/Mac: XMGrace
Text Editor
Mac X11
A basic text editor program is used in some tutorial. Most likely one came with your operating system. Some options for editors are liste below: