2010/5/2 David van der Spoel <sp...@xray.bmc.uu.se> > On 2010-05-02 10.32, Alexey Shvetsov wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Actualy suppermicro offers 4 socket machines with 12-core amd cpus so >> you get 48cores in 1U >> GROMACS perform well on such hardware =) >> > > Sure but a simple rule of thumb is that you want to maximize aggregate > clockspeed per dollar. Such machines might be quite a bit more expensive > than the simpler ones. > > Yes. But not in this case =) Opteron 61xx series costs about 1000$ per unit. So 4 socket platform from supermicro will cost about 10k$.
> >> In case of using Infiniband you need IB switch of dual port ib cards (to >> connect machines as a 1d torus) >> >> > > -- > David van der Spoel, Ph.D., Professor of Biology > Dept. of Cell & Molec. Biol., Uppsala University. > Box 596, 75124 Uppsala, Sweden. Phone: +46184714205. > sp...@xray.bmc.uu.se http://folding.bmc.uu.se > > -- > gmx-users mailing list gmx-users@gromacs.org > http://lists.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 gmx-users-requ...@gromacs.org. > Can't post? Read http://www.gromacs.org/mailing_lists/users.php > -- Best Regards, Alexey 'Alexxy' Shvetsov Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Russia Department of Molecular and Radiation Biophysics Gentoo Team Ru Gentoo Linux Dev mailto:alexx...@gmail.com mailto:ale...@gentoo.org mailto:ale...@omrb.pnpi.spb.ru
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