Hi, I recently posted a potential build for my new cluster nodes and got some great advice (thanks especially to Bill and Mark). I've done some additional research and concluded that AMD will likely give the best performance for my code and also the best bang for the buck. AMD also has many more appealing mobo options. Here's my current prospective node:
AMD Athlon 64 X2 6400+ Windsor 3.2GHz Socket AM2 125W Dual-Core G.SKILL 4GB(2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) GIGABYTE GA-M61P-S3 AM2 NVIDIA GeForce 6100 ATX AMD Motherboard Rosewill R804BK Black Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case 300W I've scored some free hard drives and dvd drives so that I can start diskful and get simulating before I figure out exactly how I want to do diskless. I'll also be going with GigE and doing the best I can; it seems others have had success with ScaLAPACK and GigE for my type of application. (Hopefully a small grant in the near future will allow an upgrade of the network - myrinet is beyond my budget right now.) My main question (besides throwing this configuration out there for comments) is about the CPU. I noticed on newegg that there are a few socket AM2 dual core opterons (the Santa Ana). Does anyone have any experience with these? There are only a few (most of the opterons seem to be socket F and the socket F mobos are far too expensive). The opteron seems to be a popular cluster choice - any thoughts on whether these would be superior to my choice above? Again, thanks everyone for the help! -tom _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
