This book describes the complete installation procedure twice, from two points of view. You can choose to follow either the standard installation, or the manual installation procedures.
The majority of readers should follow the standard installation procedure described in Chapter 2. The standard installation makes use of installation scripts to automate the editing of setup files.
Follow the manual installation procedure described in Chapter 3 only if you have extensive experience with UNIX system administration tasks. The manual installation is appropriate for readers who are:
Read the rest of this chapter regardless of the installation procedure you select.
QUANTA 2006 is supported under:
The patches required for SGI workstations are included on the QUANTA 2006 CD-ROM.
We recommend that each workstation hosting QUANTA be configured with a minimum of 512 MB of memory and 1GB of swap space.
To run certain memory-intensive modules such as displaying a model in stereo view or calculating energy minimizations on large molecules, you may need additional swap space, or more RAM, or both.
We recomment a minimum screen resolution of 1280 x 1024.
The files installed from the distribution medium for QUANTA require the following amounts of disk space:
An additional 480MB is required for database.dat (on a separate CD).
In order to install this software, you must have the root password for the workstations that will host QUANTA and for your license servers. Your alternative is to have someone who knows the root passwords assist you with the installation. The root password is required to accomplish the following tasks:
The software is loaded into a subdirectory called Quanta_2006 in the home directory of a UNIX login account named accelrys.