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Specs for HPC
Posted Jun 26, 2012, 5:10 a.m. EDT Low-Frequency Electromagnetics, Plasma Physics, Installation & License Management Version 4.2a 0 Replies
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my university wants to buy a little hpc for comsol.
at the moment we are simulating several problems with magnetic fields and plasma.
at the moment our configuration is:
4* AMD Opteron 6272 2,1GHz G34 16C
16* 8GB DDR3 FSB1600 240-pin REG x4 2R
WindowsServer 2008 R2 Enter,64bit
in my opinion there are several things to improve:
-> more ram (minimum 4gb per core?)
->2*256gb ssd only for swap
-> instead of windowsserver linux? (because of better performance?)
->would it be better to use xenons? (found this benchmark for floatingpointoperations www.tecchannel.de/bild-zoom/2016541/10/2157055/d2e2117-media/)
-> would it be cheaper to buy normal pcs with core i7 and connect them over the network?
it would be really nice if someone could share his experience with hpc for comsol.
Hello Stefan Schwarz
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