How many? What kind of simulations and analysis (asking to know if you'll need many cores, few&fast cores, GPUs, etc.)?
4000 CAD is a quite decent sum, it should get you at least 2 fast workstations. -- Szilárd On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 9:36 PM, Douglas Grahame <dgrah...@uoguelph.ca> wrote: > Sorry I meant desktop, laptop must have been a mental error as I'm looking > for a new personal laptop. > > -Douglas Grahame > > -----Original Message----- > From: gromacs.org_gmx-users-boun...@maillist.sys.kth.se > [mailto:gromacs.org_gmx-users-boun...@maillist.sys.kth.se] On Behalf Of > Szilárd Páll > Sent: February 24, 2015 3:20 PM > To: Discussion list for GROMACS users > Subject: Re: [gmx-users] Computing Resource - Laptop > > Did you mean laptop, desktop or both? I To be honest, would not use laptops > for anything but lightweight analysis tasks. > -- > Szilárd > > > On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 6:10 PM, Douglas Grahame <dgrah...@uoguelph.ca> wrote: >> Hey everyone I'm not sure if this is the place to post this or not so >> my apologies if it is not. Our lab recently got some funds to put >> towards a desktop for molecular dynamics work and we have a budget of >> aprx. $4,000 CDN for the laptop. Given that I am not an expert in the >> hardware area, nor do I have a ton in the simulation area either, I >> wanted to see if there was any suggestions or resources or even >> experiences that this mailing list may have so that we can get the most out >> of our money. >> >> >> >> Primarily the computer will be used to run GROMACS and be used for >> analysis and some small scale simulation work. We do have access to >> supercomputing clusters which will serve as the primary resource for >> modelling. Thanks for your help in advance! >> >> >> >> -Douglas Grahame >> >> >> >> >> >> --- >> This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. >> http://www.avast.com >> -- >> Gromacs Users mailing list >> >> * Please search the archive at >> http://www.gromacs.org/Support/Mailing_Lists/GMX-Users_List before posting! >> >> * Can't post? Read http://www.gromacs.org/Support/Mailing_Lists >> >> * For (un)subscribe requests visit >> https://maillist.sys.kth.se/mailman/listinfo/gromacs.org_gmx-users or send a >> mail to gmx-users-requ...@gromacs.org. > -- > Gromacs Users mailing list > > * Please search the archive at > http://www.gromacs.org/Support/Mailing_Lists/GMX-Users_List before posting! > > * Can't post? Read http://www.gromacs.org/Support/Mailing_Lists > > * For (un)subscribe requests visit > https://maillist.sys.kth.se/mailman/listinfo/gromacs.org_gmx-users or send a > mail to gmx-users-requ...@gromacs.org. > > > --- > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > http://www.avast.com > > -- > Gromacs Users mailing list > > * Please search the archive at > http://www.gromacs.org/Support/Mailing_Lists/GMX-Users_List before posting! > > * Can't post? Read http://www.gromacs.org/Support/Mailing_Lists > > * For (un)subscribe requests visit > https://maillist.sys.kth.se/mailman/listinfo/gromacs.org_gmx-users or send a > mail to gmx-users-requ...@gromacs.org. -- Gromacs Users mailing list * Please search the archive at http://www.gromacs.org/Support/Mailing_Lists/GMX-Users_List before posting! * Can't post? Read http://www.gromacs.org/Support/Mailing_Lists * For (un)subscribe requests visit https://maillist.sys.kth.se/mailman/listinfo/gromacs.org_gmx-users or send a mail to gmx-users-requ...@gromacs.org.