Am Donnerstag, 9. August 2007 schrieb james zhang: Hi James
> I want to buy a new workstation for MD simulation. > I think the Mac Pro from Apple is really nice. Workstations are imho not best if you plan to do long-taking simulations. Only think about this option if you're doing really short (minutes ~ hours) simulations. > The configuration: > *Two 3.0GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon > * *8GB (4 x 2GB) > * *500GB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s RAM size shouldn't be an issue, except if you're simulating huge systems. I am not up-to-date how the "new" intel core architecture performs compared to AMD opterons but opterons probably give you the biggest "bang for the buck". Maybe someone can provide up-to date information, the Gromacs benchmarks aren't informative about this. > with price: *$6,225.00 ~5000€ Well depending on the available infrastructure, a "cheap" workstation for 800€ will do the job. Then you have 4200€ remaining to buy compute bricks. You should definitely get more than 4 cores from this ammount. > Any suggestions or comments? Yepp, plz comment my comments, since we're planing to by additional compute nodes. ATM, we're thinking about 8-way opteron nodes with barcelona core, if it is available. Best Martin _______________________________________________ gmx-users mailing list gmx-users@gromacs.org http://www.gromacs.org/mailman/listinfo/gmx-users Please search the archive at http://www.gromacs.org/search before posting! Please don't post (un)subscribe requests to the list. Use the www interface or send it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Can't post? Read http://www.gromacs.org/mailing_lists/users.php