Nicola, thanks for pointing out this source. I note most of the swt.com machines are based on SuperMicro MBs. I've had very good experience with this company...they are located here in Fremont in the south SF bay area. I roll most of my own equipment, so you can actually save a little more "self-assembling" your own boxes. Four of my five home workstations use various editions of SuperMicro Xeon MBs...the fifth is my son's PS3, and, yes, it can run QE also...rather slowly on the just the PPE plus only 256 Mbytes, though!
Paul M. Grant, PhD Physicist and Science Writer Principal, W2AGZ Technologies Visiting Scholar, Applied Physics, Stanford (2005-2008) EPRI Science Fellow (Retired) IBM Research Staff Member Emeritus w2agz at pacbell.net http://www.w2agz.com ? ? -----Original Message----- From: pw_forum-bounces at pwscf.org [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nicola Marzari Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 12:27 PM To: PWSCF Forum Subject: Re: [Pw_forum] Do you think Intel I7 series could improve the parallel efficiency > tell me how much does your computer with I7 tech. cost? www.swt.com 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 _______________________________________________ Pw_forum mailing list Pw_forum at pwscf.org http://www.democritos.it/mailman/listinfo/pw_forum
