:orphan: I am about to install DIRAC on a 64-bit machine, should I compile using 64-bit integers or 32-bit integers? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DIRAC runs smoothly (with few exceptions; see below) on 64-bit platforms using either 32-bit or 64-bit integers. It is easier to install for 32-bit integers because MPI and math libraries are typically built for 32-bit integers. Therefore DIRAC is by default built for 32-bit integers. If you decide to build for 32-bit integers, you will **not** be able to: - Safely allocate more than 16 GB of memory **per cpu-core** - Run LUCITA - Run really, really large Coupled-Cluster calculations If you want to be able to run the above calculations, you have to build for 64-bit integers. If you decide to build for 64-bit integers, you **have to** make sure that the math library you link to can handle 64-bit integers. Otherwise DIRAC will stop.