Dear Chandra, Thank you very much for your kind information.
2010/11/2 Chandra Bhanu Basak <cbbasak at gmail.com> > Dear Shamik, > > For 250 atoms a single server may not be a good idea. Specially for polymer > where low Z elements are there... meaning higher energy cut-off... > > However, for compact server there are several options. In fact now a days > it is possible to have motherboard that supports 4 quadcore processors (e.g. > Gigabit / Asus)... on the other hand AMD came out with 12 core processor... > so in a single server one can have 4X12=48 cores. > > Doing a bit of gooling is best way to get the latest info about the > hardware. > > Regards, > > C. B. Basak > > > > 2010/11/1 shamik chakrabarti <shamikphy at gmail.com> > >> Dear Peter Blaha Sir and wien2k users, >> >> We want to do DFT >> calculation by wien2k for around *250 atoms/super cell* and we *also want >> to do simulation of polymer through* *material studio*. My question is >> what should be the best possible configuration for a server (computer) which >> can serve this purpose?.....we initially do not want clusterring of many >> nodes rather we want a compact server which will contain say atleast 2 quad >> core processors. In terms of configuration we mainly need: >> >> (1) How many quad core processors we should use? (if it is possible to use >> more than 2 quad core processor in a compact server!) >> (2) If possible please suggest the name of the processor which can serve >> our purpose the best ( Example: Intel Xeon Processor W3520, 2.66 GHz) >> (3) What should be the RAM we should be opted for? >> (4) Is there any other requirements except the above mentioned things we >> should consider? >> >> Any response will be very helpful for us. Thanks in advance. >> >> with best regards, >> >> -- >> Shamik Chakrabarti >> Research Scholar >> Dept. of Physics & Meteorology >> Material Processing & Solid State Ionics Lab >> IIT Kharagpur >> Kharagpur 721302 >> INDIA >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wien mailing list >> Wien at zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at >> http://zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at/mailman/listinfo/wien >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Wien mailing list > Wien at zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at > http://zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at/mailman/listinfo/wien > > -- Shamik Chakrabarti Research Scholar Dept. of Physics & Meteorology Material Processing & Solid State Ionics Lab IIT Kharagpur Kharagpur 721302 INDIA -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at/pipermail/wien/attachments/20101102/026ace62/attachment.htm>