| Re: OT: recommendations for high preformance workstations [message #53913 is a reply to message #53912] |
Tue, 08 May 2007 08:58   |
Jean H.
Messages: 472
Registered: July 2006
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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.
hum... Dell... we have nothing but problems with them... every computer
we have (a dozen) had some problems within 2 years of purchase
(motherboard, fan, memory etc) and the service is worst than bad (in
Canada at least)....
> 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.
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> Thanks,
>
> Mirko
If you find the "perfect computer", please post it here.... our lab is
looking for buying this kind of beast now...
Jean
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