Re: OT: Can lot of RAM can slow down a calculation workstation?

2015-07-02 Thread David Christensen
On 07/02/2015 09:32 AM, Dan wrote: I can buy 8x 32 Gb or 16 x 16Gb. The first option is more expensive than the second one, but I will have only one DIMM per channel. Any suggestions or experience with this? I have also seen cases where one memory module per channel is faster than two of the

Re: OT: Can lot of RAM can slow down a calculation workstation?

2015-07-02 Thread Dan
On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 2:34 PM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 11:58:40AM +0200, Dan wrote: On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 11:46 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: [...] No I do not know that. I am a scientist, and I use the computers as

Re: OT: Can lot of RAM can slow down a calculation workstation?

2015-06-26 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 11:33:48AM +0200, Dan wrote: Yes the calculation is memory/cpu instensive. I can not consider a faster (multi-core) processor because I do not have the budget to buy a new machine. But I need more RAM, the calculation do

Re: OT: Can lot of RAM can slow down a calculation workstation?

2015-06-26 Thread Dan
On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 11:46 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 11:33:48AM +0200, Dan wrote: Yes the calculation is memory/cpu instensive. I can not consider a faster (multi-core) processor because I do not have the budget to

Re: OT: Can lot of RAM can slow down a calculation workstation?

2015-06-26 Thread Dan
On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 11:51 AM, rajiv chavan rc214...@gmail.com wrote: On 6/23/15, to...@tuxteam.de to...@tuxteam.de wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 06:24:52PM +0530, rajiv chavan wrote: Tue, 23 Jun 2015 18:16:51 +0530 Is calculation

Re: OT: Can lot of RAM can slow down a calculation workstation?

2015-06-26 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 11:58:40AM +0200, Dan wrote: On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 11:46 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: [...] No I do not know that. I am a scientist, and I use the computers as a tool to do simulations that I write in C++ with (Threading

Re: OT: Can lot of RAM can slow down a calculation workstation?

2015-06-24 Thread rajiv chavan
On 6/23/15, to...@tuxteam.de to...@tuxteam.de wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 06:24:52PM +0530, rajiv chavan wrote: Tue, 23 Jun 2015 18:16:51 +0530 Is calculation memory/cpu cycle intensive? Consider a faster (and multi-core) processor with more

Re: OT: Can lot of RAM can slow down a calculation workstation?

2015-06-23 Thread Darac Marjal
On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 10:52:50AM +0200, Dan wrote: Hi, I have a workstation Dell Precision T7610 that I use for scientific calculations. It has two Xeon CPU E5-2650 v2 @ 2.60GHz with 64GB DDR3 1866MHz. I would like to upgrade the machine and buy 256 GB of RAM. In the case of a

Re: OT: Can lot of RAM can slow down a calculation workstation?

2015-06-23 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 10:52:50AM +0200, Dan wrote: Hi, [...] I would like to upgrade the machine and buy 256 GB of RAM [...] Tough question. Apart from Darac's considerations, that'll depend much on your calculations: if the working set of

OT: Can lot of RAM can slow down a calculation workstation?

2015-06-23 Thread Dan
Hi, I have a workstation Dell Precision T7610 that I use for scientific calculations. It has two Xeon CPU E5-2650 v2 @ 2.60GHz with 64GB DDR3 1866MHz. I would like to upgrade the machine and buy 256 GB of RAM. In the case of a calculation that can fit in 64GB, Does too much RAM can slow down the