does the hardware need to be onsite? s.
On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 10:56 AM, Brian Sheppard <[email protected]> wrote: > I recently reached the same conclusion for single-processor systems: a 980x > system seems best. > > Building your own is crucial here, as buying pre-built systems will get you > a ton of stuff (graphics cards, RAID, etc.) that computer Go does not need. > And then everything (case, power supply, cooling) will be overbuilt to > match. > > Brian > ________________________________ > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Don Dailey > Sent: Sunday, November 07, 2010 7:38 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Computer-go] OT: prices for fast computer-go hardware > > I think you get the most bang for the buck with the i7-980x, which is not > really the same chip as the other Intel chips, and I think they are coming > out with improved versions of that if they have not already. This has 6 > real cores (and 6 additional pseudo cores.) It's not 8 or 16 or more like > we are talking about, but you can put your own together for less than > $2000.0. Each core is faster than the other i7 cores and it's clocked at > 3.2 and can be seriously overclocked as it has the smaller die size compared > to the lesser i7's. This chip itself is pricey, but you get more > performance out of 1 of these than you do 2 of the other i7 quad cores we > are talking about. > Also, don't forget that given the same total cpu cycles less cores is > better than more cores as a general rule. > For 5000 you could build 2 of these systems, although they would be > separate boxes. > Don > > > On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 7:06 AM, Petr Baudis <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Sun, Nov 07, 2010 at 10:41:47AM +0900, Darren Cook wrote: >> > Or going AMD, I found a 4-CPU motherboard [6] for $750, which could be >> > fitted with 4 x 6-core 2.2Ghz opterons [7] for $480 x 4. Wow, $3350 for >> > a 24-core 2.2Ghz machine? (Perhaps those opterons are only for single >> > CPU configurations?) >> >> BTW, last I checked Intel still had *much* faster processors than AMD at >> the high end (though you pay more buck per computing power). If someone >> has any benchmarks that would point otherwise, I will be glad to see >> them, since we are currently picking a new HPC server to buy too. >> >> -- >> Petr "Pasky" Baudis >> The true meaning of life is to plant a tree under whose shade >> you will never sit. >> _______________________________________________ >> Computer-go mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go > > > _______________________________________________ > Computer-go mailing list > [email protected] > http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go > _______________________________________________ Computer-go mailing list [email protected] http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
