vega lew wrote: > Dear all, > > Dear all, > > We will launch a big program to set up a computer center for Q-E and > CPMD. We wonder whether AMD Six-Core AMD Opteron? Processor or Intel > XEON 5500 series will give us a more efficient performance. Of course, > the infiniband is included in the program. and we design 3G > DDR3-1333MHz for each Core (not each CPU). > > any suggestion will be appreciated. > > thank you for reading > > vega
Dear Vega, *great* news ! And congratulations... We are also debating right now a Opteron vs Intel (small) purchase, especially for large memory jobs - so if anyone had any information on perfromance, or scalability with Infiniband, that would be greatly appreciated. nicola -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Nicola Marzari Department of Materials Science and Engineering 13-5066 MIT 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge MA 02139-4307 USA tel 617.4522758 fax 2586534 marzari at mit.edu http://quasiamore.mit.edu
