On 4/13/23 9:43 AM, Steve Kargl via Fortran wrote:
All,
The systems that I've used while hacking on gfortran
bugs and features are starting to show their age. I'm
in the early stage of put together the wishlist for
a budget friendly replacement. While I'll likely go
with a Ryzen7 cpu, NVME M2 drives, and as much memory
as I can afford, I'm looking for recommendations for
a budget friendly video/gpu card that will allow me to
take a deeper dive into openacc/openmp and offloading.
Anyone have a suggestion?
Note, I've mostly used FreeBSD over the last 25+ years.
I suspect that pursuing offloading may be easier with
a flavor linux. Any recommendation would also be
appreciated.
Hi Steve,
If you are into building your own, I am using:
https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/X570-AORUS-ELITE-rev-10#kf
It has plenty of sata ports and I am using a 1TB pci4 m2 drive. It
supports two m2's so no problems on storage. Do get a pci4 drive, rather
fast.
This motherboard will support the Ryzen 5000 series chips which are
rather impressive. I have a Ryzen 3600 which for me is adequate,
however I have an upgrade path.
I use Fedora which has all the standard tools well supported. Ubuntu is
as useful, with some differences in the package manager and looks of the
Gnome Desktop. (All very configurable.
I just bought a cheap video card as I am not exploring the offloading.
Cheers,
Jerry
