I like AWS. 16 cores for $3 per hour is pretty good. That's as many as you get with shared memory though. To go higher you would need your program to scale with a network.
David > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:computer-go- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Erik van der Werf > Sent: Friday, January 11, 2013 1:44 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Computer-go] Hardware advice > > Personally I'd go for the 6344, or perhaps the 6238, but in general I > agree; comparable Intel systems are ridiculously over-priced. > > Erik > > > On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 9:07 PM, Rémi Coulom <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > We are considering investing into some high-end tournament hardware > for Crazy Stone. It has to be a single machine. > > > > Right now, I am considering a server such as this one: > > http://www.thinkmate.com/System/RAX_QS5-4410 > > With 4 x Sixteen-Core AMD Opteron Model 6386 SE (2.8 GHz) > > > > It seems that Intel alternatives with a similar price are much less > powerful. Is there anything I am missing? > > > > I checked that the clock efficiency of our Intel server is 1.4 better > than our AMD bulldozer. I expect that hyperthreading does not help very > much because of scalability problems, but I am not so sure. > > > > Any recommendation would be welcome. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Rémi > > _______________________________________________ > > 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
