Re: workstation buying advice

2020-07-15 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Wednesday, July 15, 2020 4:10 AM, lina wrote: > That would be great to get your guys' advice as I worried I may not be > able to install Debian on it due to my past experience that my SSD was > invisible during

Re: workstation buying advice

2020-07-15 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, lina wrote: > Can you help me with a rational configuration for a decent computer > run solely for the computational purpose. Well, i am a software developer. My experience is restricted to choosing the parts for a new desktop computer every 5 years. But out of curiosity i already discussed y

Re: workstation buying advice

2020-07-15 Thread Dan Ritter
Klaus Singvogel wrote: > Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > power supply appears dangerously close to the minimum requirements: > > https://www.servethehome.com/supermicro-x11dpi-n-e-atx-motherboard-review/ > > "We find an idle power draw of 132 watts and Peak of 394 watts to be > >quite common" >

Re: workstation buying advice

2020-07-15 Thread Dan Ritter
lina wrote: > Hi Dan, > > ThinkStation P620 Tower Workstation is the one you mentioned? > > https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/think-workstations/thinkstation-p-series/ThinkStation-P620/p/33TS3TPP620 > I didn't mention it in particular, but yes, this would certainly work well. Note that this is the

Re: workstation buying advice

2020-07-15 Thread rhkramer
+1 for AMD Nothing new below this line. On Wednesday, July 15, 2020 08:48:41 AM Dan Ritter wrote: > For best price/performance for large parallel workloads, you may > be better off with an AMD ThreadRipper or EPYC system. > > The Intel CPU has a list price of $1800 US. > > An AMD TR4 2990WX is

Re: workstation buying advice

2020-07-15 Thread lina
Hi Dan, ThinkStation P620 Tower Workstation is the one you mentioned? https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/think-workstations/thinkstation-p-series/ThinkStation-P620/p/33TS3TPP620 Thanks, lina On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 2:48 PM Dan Ritter wrote: > > lina wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am trying to get a workst

Re: workstation buying advice

2020-07-15 Thread Klaus Singvogel
Thomas Schmitt wrote: > lina wrote: > > > Supermicro CSE-732i-R500 [...] 500W > > If already your CPUs are specified to have a TDP of 150 W each then a 500 W > power supply appears dangerously close to the minimum requirements: > https://www.servethehome.com/supermicro-x11dpi-n-e-atx-motherboar

Re: workstation buying advice

2020-07-15 Thread Dan Ritter
lina wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to get a workstation with the following configurations: > > Moderkort S3647 Supermicro X11DPi-N 16DDR4 2GLAN 2NVMe 10SATA3 4+2PCIE IPMI > EATX > CPU S3647 Intel Xeon Gold 6230R 2,1-4,0GHz 36MB 26-core 52-thread 150W 2,00 > Kylning CPU S3647 Supermicro narrow ak

Re: workstation buying advice

2020-07-15 Thread lina
Hi Thomas, Can you help me with a rational configuration for a decent computer run solely for the computational purpose. I am not good at it, highly appreciated. Thanks, lina On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 1:57 PM Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > Hi, > > lina wrote: > > [...] workstation [...] > > [...] Supe

Re: workstation buying advice

2020-07-15 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, lina wrote: > [...] workstation [...] > [...] Supermicro X11DPi-N [...] > CPU S3647 Intel Xeon Gold 6230R 2,1-4,0GHz 36MB 26-core 52-thread 150W 2,00 The CPU is very recent. But it seems not to be allergic to Linux http://www.spec.org/cpu2017/results/res2020q2/cpu2017-20200331-21877.html

workstation buying advice

2020-07-15 Thread lina
Hi, I am trying to get a workstation with the following configurations: Moderkort S3647 Supermicro X11DPi-N 16DDR4 2GLAN 2NVMe 10SATA3 4+2PCIE IPMI EATX CPU S3647 Intel Xeon Gold 6230R 2,1-4,0GHz 36MB 26-core 52-thread 150W 2,00 Kylning CPU S3647 Supermicro narrow aktiv 4U 3800rpm 38dB max 205W 2