Siavoush Dastmalchi <siavoush11 <at> yahoo.com> writes: > Dear JB,Many thanks for your kind reply. > I know that those programs works under linux and am currently using them under > fedora. What Fedora version do you have ? What kernel version ? Please provide these displays for us: $ $ cat /etc/fedora-release $ uname -a > What I want to know is the suitability of Dell PowerEdge M710 with Intel > Xeon 5667 processor for parallel computation under linux system. Fair enuf. But your Fedora version and kernel version will have something to say about that, at least with regard to hardware supported ... Please provide info asked for above. > By the way, I always have problem with this yum command. > Issuing the following commands gives me error: > $ yum list "*gromacs* > "Loading "installonlyn" plugin According to this link: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=165119 the installonlyn plugin is a "history" (dated back to year 2007). Please provide info asked for above. > Setting up repositories > extras > [1/2]Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: extrasCannot find > repomd.xml file for extrasError: Cannot find repomd.xml file for > extras Please provide info asked for above. > Cheers,Siavoush Btw, on my F14 system the following is also relevant to your questions: $ yum list "*gromacs*" ... Available Packages gromacs.i686 4.5.3-2.fc14 updates gromacs-bash.noarch 4.5.3-2.fc14 updates gromacs-common.noarch 4.5.3-2.fc14 updates gromacs-csh.noarch 4.5.3-2.fc14 updates gromacs-devel.i686 4.5.3-2.fc14 updates gromacs-libs.i686 4.5.3-2.fc14 updates gromacs-mpich2.i686 4.5.3-2.fc14 updates gromacs-mpich2-devel.i686 4.5.3-2.fc14 updates gromacs-mpich2-libs.i686 4.5.3-2.fc14 updates gromacs-openmpi.i686 4.5.3-2.fc14 updates gromacs-openmpi-devel.i686 4.5.3-2.fc14 updates gromacs-openmpi-libs.i686 4.5.3-2.fc14 updates gromacs-tutor.noarch 4.5.3-2.fc14 updates gromacs-zsh.noarch 4.5.3-2.fc14 updates $ yum info gromacs ... Available Packages Name : gromacs Arch : i686 Version : 4.5.3 Release : 2.fc14 Size : 328 k Repo : updates Summary : Fast, Free and Flexible Molecular Dynamics URL : http://www.gromacs.org License : GPLv2+ Description : GROMACS is a versatile and extremely well optimized package to : perform molecular dynamics computer simulations and subsequent : trajectory analysis. It is developed for biomolecules like : proteins, but the extremely high performance means it is used : also in several other field like polymer chemistry and solid : state physics. : : This package provides single and double precision binaries. : The documentation is in the package gromacs-common. : : mdrun has been compiled with thread parallellization, so it runs : in parallel on shared memory systems. If you want to run on a : cluster, you probably want to install one of the MPI : parallellized packages. : : N.B. All binaries have names starting with g_, for example mdrun : has been renamed to g_mdrun. JB -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines