Leginon

h1. Minimum Requirements and current NRAMM setup

*Recommendation is based on the current NRAMM setup

h2. Electron Microscope with its Controling Computer (Windows)

FEI Tecnai 12 with Scripting SW, network connected see [[Network Configuration]], and the ability to install software

on it

h2. CCD

Gatan,  Tietz, Eagle-minimal 1kx1k; NRAMM 4kx4k

h2. A Second Computer (Linux- CentOS at NRAMM)

h3. CPU

Minimal 1 GHz; NRAMM 3 x (Intel Xeon E5540 2 2.53GHz)

h3. RAM

Minimal 1 GB physical memory and 1GB swap but it will be painfully slow for 4kx4k images and MSI applications; NRAMM had 4GB physical memory and 2 GB for years, and now at 6GB and 6GB, respectively.

h3. Hard drive

10 GB for the softwares and maybe a few hours worth of data collection. Much larger

for routine use. NRAMM 15Tb and growing

h3. Network connection speed

100 Mbps; NRAMM 1 Gbps

h2. Leginon system components developed at Leginon home

Leginon Home:  "http://www.leginon.org/":http://www.leginon.org/

h2. Supporting packages and programs available through internet or your Linux distribution

There are minimum of ten packages or single programs, some of them are included in your

Linux distribution.

h2. Leginon supporting programs available upon request

adaexp.exe that is required if film exposure is to be made through Leginon on FEI Tecnai

machines is available by request. Please contact Max Otten: <email>mto@nl.feico.com</email>

and let him know what version of the Tecnai user interface you are using.

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[[Graphical User Interface|< Graphical User Interface]] | [[Getting Started|Getting Started >]]

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