Dear all, Thanks for all the off/list replies. > To be honest, how much are they paying you to take it? Can you sell it for > scrap? May be I will give it a pass.
> To compare, two dual CPU servers with Skylake Gold 6148 - that is 40 cores - > will probably beat the whole lot even if you could keep the cluster going. > And keeping clusters busy is a time consuming challenge... I know! > > If they are 250W servers, then you are looking at £8000 per year to power > and cool it. The two modern servers will be more like £1500 per year to run. > And the servers will only cost about £6000... the economics and planet don't > stack up! By servers do you mean tower/standalone? Thanks for the detailed explanation. From 2012, we already have many dell precision T5600 with 2 x Xeon E5-2643 (8 Cores) (16 threads) and I was hoping parallellisation with clusters maybe of some help. Looks not. These are running so well (takes about 45 min for a typical dataset reduction with DIALS) I am not sure buying new ones is useful. ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1
