<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div>Hi Rick,</div><div><br></div>Any laptop or desktop less than 3 years old should work well with Chimera. It can use Mac, Windows or Linux operating systems. Older computers will work but sometimes the graphics rendering is slow or exhibits bugs. For large molecules (> 50,000 atoms) or large imaging data (> 512 x 512 x 512 pixels) you’d benefit from a video gaming type graphics card from AMD or Nvidia (cost about $50-$300). Also for those larger data sets it would be nice to have 8 Gbytes of memory, although 4 Gbytes is fine for data that is not that large.<div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Tom</div><div><br><div><br><div><div>On Sep 16, 2014, at 3:54 PM, Rick Roberts wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Hello,<div><br></div><div>We are on boarding a Physician that will be using Chimera. What are the hardware requirements (processor, video card, memory, etc.)</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks in advance.<br><div>
<div style="font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0100BA"><i><b style="font-size: 13px; ">Rick Roberts</b></i></font></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0100BA"><i><b style="font-size: 13px; ">Children's Hospital Los Angeles</b></i></font></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0100BA"><i><b style="font-size: 13px; ">Pathology and Laboratory Medicine</b></i></font></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="font-family: Arial; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="font-family: Helvetica;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0100BA"><i><b style="font-size: 13px;"><br></b></i></font></div></div></div></div></body></html>