| Re: OT: recommendations for high preformance workstations [message #53906 is a reply to message #53894] |
Tue, 08 May 2007 14:35   |
JD Smith
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Registered: December 1999
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On Tue, 08 May 2007 06:47:50 -0700, Mirko wrote:
> Good morning group,
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> I am buying my next linux workstation, and other than dollars, are there
> other parameters that I should take into account? My main unknown is
> vendor. Our company likes Dell very much, but I wonder whether HP or IBM
> machines are better engineered or built for scientific computations.
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> I am looking for a 64-bit dual processor (dual or quad core) with about
> 8GB. I will be running Fluent (and IDL) on it, and Fluent can take
> advantage of parallelized architectures. So far I have never looked into
> IDL's features for running on parallel machines.
I'd skip the big names and try a linux-specific workstation provider
like ASL labs. Tested and guaranteed linux hardware compatibility
(especially important for video cards), and pre-installation of any of
a dozen Linux distributions. And for the high end, pretty affordable
too. For ~2k you can get a quad core Intel chip @2.4GHz, 4GB, 1.5GB
HD, and a fast NVidia card.
JD
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