Cryosparc on arm64

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Hello CryoSPARC developers. You are doing a fantastic job keeping up CryoSPARC fresh.

The last decade has brought a revolution in utilizing GPUs, specifically Nvidia GPUs and CUDA, to accelerate data processing. Nowadays, there is a visible push from Nvidia on their CPUs as well, in the form of DGX Spark and DGX Station, which appear to be absolutely magnificent pieces of hardware for data processing.

So far, I have had no issues getting various CryoEM applications to work on Arm with either conda or apptainer/docker containers. Things just worked with full CUDA acceleration.

Therefore, Arm64 support should not be a far-fetched goal, so I have two questions related to a future CryoSPARC release.

  1. Are you planning to and working to release CryoSPARC on arm64?
  2. If so, does it appear to be a distant future?

I do not expect an exact answer, but specific hardware decisions can be a lot easier.

Thank you so much for the great work!

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