Software platform virtualization in chemistry research and university teaching.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Modern chemistry laboratories operate with a wide range of software applications under different operating systems, such as Windows, LINUX or Mac OS X. Instead of installing software on different computers it is possible to install those applications on a single computer using Virtual Machine software. Software platform virtualization allows a single guest operating system to execute multiple other operating systems on the same computer. We apply and discuss the use of virtual machines in chemistry research and teaching laboratories.

Results

Virtual machines are commonly used for cheminformatics software development and testing. Benchmarking multiple chemistry software packages we have confirmed that the computational speed penalty for using virtual machines is lo

SUBMITTER: Kind T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2820496 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature