From owner-chemistry@ccl.net Wed May 20 23:13:01 2015 From: "Billy McCann thebillywayne:+:gmail.com" To: CCL Subject: CCL: Workshop on Computational Biophysics (Berkeley, Aug 3-7, 2015) Message-Id: <-51389-150520223911-11663-YCv88VTjz2c3y7n2pwhYDA]![server.ccl.net> X-Original-From: Billy McCann Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Date: Thu, 21 May 2015 02:38:50 +0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Sent to CCL by: Billy McCann [thebillywayne]~[gmail.com] > Are you sure a discrete graphics card is required? That they specify a "graphics card" and not a "graphical processing unit" indicates, to me, that this workshop requires a laptop with a *discrete* graphics card and not an integrated graphics solution. Also the specific brand mentioned, nVidia, supplies *solely* discrete graphics solutions in consumer grade laptops. Also, consider the advice given regarding the Mac platform: "Macintosh computers often come with sufficient graphics processing power, so no additional card is necessary." By inference, non-Macintosh computers *will* need an additional card. Overall, reading the laptop requirements page leaves me somewhat confused. (".... up-to-date hardware, operating systems, and software versions .... Windows 2000, Max OS X 10.3 ... G4 ... Pentium 4 ..." ???) But I'm at least going to give the people coordinating a computational biophysics workshop the benefit of the doubt that they know the difference between a "graphics card" and an intel or amd integrated graphics processing unit. You know, I'm probably getting worked up over nothing, honestly. Everything costs money, I suppose. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0kcet4aPpQ I think this one probably got to me a bit more than usual because of how badly I want to get into this field. It's the next logical step in what I want to accomplish in the long run. It's probably best that I slink away and get back to writing resumes. I hope the workshop is a great success. Regards, BW