On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 08:35:23AM +0800, Christopher Chan wrote:
On Thursday, March 11, 2010 01:41 AM, Eduardo Grosclaude wrote:
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 2:05 AM, Christopher Chan
christopher.c...@bradbury.edu.hk wrote:
On the Intel side, a dual socket solution
will even outperform a
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 2:05 AM, Christopher Chan
christopher.c...@bradbury.edu.hk wrote:
On the Intel side, a dual socket solution
will even outperform a quad socket solution so if one is looking for
Intel cpu solutions, dual socket is the only sensible choice. But that
Wow, that's a pretty
On Thursday, March 11, 2010 01:41 AM, Eduardo Grosclaude wrote:
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 2:05 AM, Christopher Chan
christopher.c...@bradbury.edu.hk wrote:
On the Intel side, a dual socket solution
will even outperform a quad socket solution so if one is looking for
Intel cpu solutions, dual
Christopher Chan wrote:
Anandtech did some testing last quarter where they compared what appears
to be the best quad socket Intel solution against the best dual socket
Intel solution and the dual socket solution ran circles around the quad
in some tests and pretty much matches it in other
Eduardo Grosclaude wrote:
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 12:49 AM, Christopher Chan
christopher.c...@bradbury.edu.hk wrote:
On Tuesday, March 09, 2010 12:34 AM, Eduardo Grosclaude wrote:
Hello,
Can somebody recommend CentOS-OK, dual socket motherboards for compute
elements? A quick look up at Intel
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 1:08 AM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote:
for a high performance compute cluster, you'll probably want to use
management software like Oscar, which integrates system management with
MPI based distributed computing such that you can manage a cluster of
100s of
On Tue, 9 Mar 2010 at 9:49pm, Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote
If cpu processing power is the sole criteria, then why limit to
dual-socket boards and not go for quad-socket boards?
In general, the price goes up non-linearly as you go above 2 sockets,
making 2 sockets the sweet spot when it
Eduardo Grosclaude wrote:
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 1:08 AM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote:
for a high performance compute cluster, you'll probably want to use
management software like Oscar, which integrates system management with
MPI based distributed computing such that you can
On Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 08:09:57PM -0800, nate wrote:
Gordon McLellan wrote:
If your application can't support GPU based processing, I think
Peter's suggestion is most fitting. Load up a rack of dual socket
5520 servers from Dell or HP and then save some money by building your
own
On Wednesday, March 10, 2010 12:35 AM, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
On Tue, 9 Mar 2010 at 9:49pm, Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote
If cpu processing power is the sole criteria, then why limit to
dual-socket boards and not go for quad-socket boards?
In general, the price goes up non-linearly
Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
Wow, pretty cool system. Can you tell about the pricing?
I don't think I can, but it is competitive with Dell and HP
as an example while the innovation put into the cloud rack
is far beyond anything Dell or HP offer to mere mortals.
Closest HP offers is the SL series of
, 2010 7:37:04 PM
Subject: Re: [CentOS] Motherboards for HPC applications
Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
Wow, pretty cool system. Can you tell about the pricing?
I don't think I can, but it is competitive with Dell and HP
as an example while the innovation put into the cloud rack
is far beyond anything
Christopher Chan wrote:
Hmm, I see at most a 50% increase in motherboard pricing from a dual to
a quad socket motherboard and that is with a difference in feature set
too with the quad coming with an extra onboard LSI 8 port SAS
controller. That is hardly going up non-linearly. (taking an
On Wednesday, March 10, 2010 11:41 AM, John R Pierce wrote:
Christopher Chan wrote:
Hmm, I see at most a 50% increase in motherboard pricing from a dual to
a quad socket motherboard and that is with a difference in feature set
too with the quad coming with an extra onboard LSI 8 port SAS
On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Eduardo Grosclaude
eduardo.groscla...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello,
Can somebody recommend CentOS-OK, dual socket motherboards for compute
elements? A quick look up at Intel pages suggests they are thinking of
them as server boards, but then they recommend them as
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Eduardo Grosclaude wrote:
Hello,
Can somebody recommend CentOS-OK, dual socket motherboards for compute
elements? A quick look up at Intel pages suggests they are thinking of
them as server boards, but then they recommend them as for SMB,
I'm
Hi,
5400 series CPU). I have an Asus board that runs Linux and
Opensolaris just fine, but will not allow any version of Windows to
install.
I want one of those :)
Regards,
Michel
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On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 12:49 PM, Eduardo Grosclaude
eduardo.groscla...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm targeting E5520. I'll buy in Argentina, with a high stack of all
sort of costs threw upon the product, so budget may not mean much to
foreigners.
Eduardo,
Are you going to be writing your own HPC
On Tuesday, March 09, 2010 12:34 AM, Eduardo Grosclaude wrote:
Hello,
Can somebody recommend CentOS-OK, dual socket motherboards for compute
elements? A quick look up at Intel pages suggests they are thinking of
them as server boards, but then they recommend them as for SMB,
I'm somewhat
Eduardo Grosclaude wrote:
Hello,
Can somebody recommend CentOS-OK, dual socket motherboards for compute
elements?
for real numeric stuff (as opposed to things like video processing that
utilizes sse3), the AMD processors often outperform Intel. current AMD
dual socket server processors
Gordon McLellan wrote:
If your application can't support GPU based processing, I think
Peter's suggestion is most fitting. Load up a rack of dual socket
5520 servers from Dell or HP and then save some money by building your
own shared-storage to feed the cluster. The big vendors crank out
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