Re: [Wien] Need help for purchasing hardware

2021-09-27 Thread Peter Blaha
At the end, only a benchmark can tell. These are a bit older processors, but they have the advantage of 4 memory channels (instead of 2). Since we know that when all cores are used, the speed is limited by the memory, it could well be that they are faster in these cases (and usually, due to

Re: [Wien] Need help for purchasing hardware

2021-09-26 Thread Laurence Marks
lapw1 benchmarks (autocorrect) -- Professor Laurence Marks Department of Materials Science and Engineering Northwestern University www.numis.northwestern.edu "Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought" Albert Szent-Györgyi On Sun, Sep 26, 2021,

Re: [Wien] Need help for purchasing hardware

2021-09-26 Thread Laurence Marks
Can you ask your vendor to benchmark the speed, e.g. using the laptop benchmarks? That is great most accurate method. -- Professor Laurence Marks Department of Materials Science and Engineering Northwestern University www.numis.northwestern.edu "Research is to see what everybody else has seen,

[Wien] Need help for purchasing hardware

2021-09-26 Thread SANDEEP ARORA
Can an X-series processor like i9-10900x or i9-9900x with larger memory bandwidth (94 GB/s and 85GB/s vs 50GB/s for i9-11700k and i7-10700k) but slower RAM DDR42933 make faster calculations. Sandeep Arora ___ Wien mailing list

Re: [Wien] Need help for purchasing hardware

2021-09-26 Thread Peter Blaha
I'd go for a 8 core processor of the 11. generation like I9--11900K or I7-11700K which support already the faster DDR4-3200 RAM. I'd also configure 64 GB RAM and besides the SSD an additional 2TB disk (7/24 duty - i.e. made for continous use). Am 26.09.2021 um 10:12 schrieb SANDEEP ARORA:

[Wien] Need help for purchasing hardware

2021-09-26 Thread SANDEEP ARORA
Dear wien2k user, we are planning to purchase a system for working on monolayer semiconductors consisting of 30 to 50 atoms in supercell. We can't afford to purchase a cluster. can we go for a system with I7-10870h processor Ram 32gb ssd 1tb. Any suggestions would be