Date: Fri Dec 15 2006 - 04:28:12 EST
Hi Will, If you've got DiVa installed, you should have a digitized image of the breakoff point and side streams on-screen. Those images are recorded by camera's in the sorter, and digitized via a specialized board in the PC BD supplied you with. So while DiVa software for analysis doen not need a second hard drive (or even partition) in my hands, and a single generic ethernet connection will probably do for connecting to the sorter, the camera images cannot be captured without having the board installed. The capture board in question is a relic, and a sizeable one at that. I'm not sure if it as a PCI slot connector or something older. It may or may not physically fit inside the Mac's tower case, and I'm not sure about their legacy interfaces support, esp. when running Windows. Having said that, I don't see why it shouldn't work in off-line analysis mode, and several people on this list have already indicated that it does. Having two cores onboard will only help speed up the software if it's written to make use of them, and I'm pretty sure Diva isn't as it orginates from the days well before dual core CPU's became affordable. Guy Next generation therapeutic <http://www.ablynx.com/> antibodies Guy Hermans, PhD Senior Scientist Ablynx NV Technologiepark 4 B-9052 Zwijnaarde Belgium guy.hermans@ablynx.com tel: fax: mobile: +32 (0)9 261 06 57 +32 (0)9 261 06 27 +32 (0)486 788 551 <https://www.plaxo.com/add_me?u=30065269879&v0=994426&k0=2009290972> Add me to your address book... <http://www.plaxo.com/signature> Want a signature like this? -----Original Message----- From: William Schott [mailto:will.schott@jax.org] Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 9:31 PM To: cyto-inbox Subject: Re: DIVA SOFTWARE ON INTEL CORE 2 DUO PROCESSOR Has anyone out there upgraded their DiVa to anything faster, for sorting and acquisition? We have the original DiVa upgrade supplied HP workstation. I don' know much about what kind of card slots or hard drive configuration would be required by the DiVa software... Does it just need a dedicated ethernet connection? I would be interested to see if an Intel Mac with windows installed could run our sorter... -will William Schott Flow Cytometrist The Jackson Laboratory 600 Main St. Bar Harbor, ME 04609 Phone: (207) 288-6192 On Dec 12, 2006, at 3:31 PM, [FlowJo Tech Support] Maciej Simm wrote: David, I've installed DiVa 5 on an intel macbook using parallels (core duo) as well as on a mac pro natively in bootcamp (c2d). Of course native is faster, though my general "feel" of it is that c2d does not make much difference, not enough to "wow" anyway. Could just be the software, tho - not sure it's multithreaded. . I had no problem getting the diva USB dongle drives to work in either parallels or bootcamp. Maciej Simm Tree Star Inc. dombkowski@HELIX.MGH.HARVARD.EDU wrote: I want to know if anyone is running DIVA software on a PC with Core 2 Duo Processor for acquisition and sorting from a sorter. I am hoping that this platform will provide superior performance of DIVA software for acquisition and sorting. There is also the Core 2 Duo extreme Processor as well. Thanks David ----------------------------------------------------------------------- THIS E-MAIL MESSAGE IS INTENDED ONLY FOR THE USE OF THE INDIVIDUAL OR ENTITY TO WHICH IT IS ADDRESSED AND MAY CONTAIN INFORMATION THAT IS PRIVILEGED, CONFIDENTIAL AND EXEMPT FROM DISCLOSURE. If the reader of this E-mail message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately at ablynx@ablynx.com. Thank you for your co-operation. "NANOBODY" and "NANOCLONE" are registered trademarks of Ablynx N.V. -----------------------------------------------------------------------
