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<p>Hallo Rahul,</p>
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<p>where are you "based"? If you are in Europe we (ClusterVision) can definitely help you out with benchmarks and quotes... </p>
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<p>Go to <a class=rvts7 href="www.clustervision.com">www.clustervision.com</a> for further information...</p>
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<p>Jan</p>
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<p>Dienstag, 12. Mai 2009, meintest Du:</p>
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<p><span class=rvts6>RN> I'm currently shopping around for a cluster-expansion and was shopping</span></p>
<p><span class=rvts6>RN> for options. Anybody out here who's bought new hardware in the recent</span></p>
<p><span class=rvts6>RN> past? Any suggestions? Any horror stories?</span></p>
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<p><span class=rvts6>RN> We've been using Dell SC1435's with Quad-Core AMD 2354 Opterons @</span></p>
<p><span class=rvts6>RN> 2.2GHz. 16 Gig RAM.</span></p>
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<p><span class=rvts6>RN> Any new-cutting edge stuff I ought to be asking my vendors to put into</span></p>
<p><span class=rvts6>RN> the quotes? I already have gigabit bonded backbones and don't think we</span></p>
<p><span class=rvts6>RN> have the financial muscle to upgrade to Myrinet or Infiniband yet. In</span></p>
<p><span class=rvts6>RN> the interest of homogeniety and not wanting to have dual trees of</span></p>
<p><span class=rvts6>RN> executibles I might be tempted to stick with AMDs unless there is</span></p>
<p><span class=rvts6>RN> compelling temptation otherwise.</span></p>
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<p><span class=rvts6>RN> I am already looking at the CPU benchmarks on the Intel/AMD websites</span></p>
<p><span class=rvts6>RN> but they can sometimes be misleading / misrepresenting other than the</span></p>
<p><span class=rvts6>RN> obvious glaring conflict of interest. I rather trust first-hand</span></p>
<p><span class=rvts6>RN> anecdotal evidence from you guys actually administering them for</span></p>
<p><span class=rvts6>RN> scientific applications. Unless there is a good third party, relevant</span></p>
<p><span class=rvts6>RN> database?</span></p>
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<p><span class=rvts6>RN> For some reason the top500 sublists seem skewed to prefer the Intel</span></p>
<p><span class=rvts6>RN> Xeons. Why so few Opterons or any other AMD hardware? Just curious if</span></p>
<p><span class=rvts6>RN> this is driven by technological inferiority of only a marketing</span></p>
<p><span class=rvts6>RN> effect. My vendor seems to be trying to steer me towards an Intel</span></p>
<p><span class=rvts6>RN> Nehalem or Clovertown for whatever reasons good or bad.</span></p>
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<p><span class=rvts6>RN> Ultimately of course, it might be best if I just got to benchmark my</span></p>
<p><span class=rvts6>RN> very own application on these CPUs before I bought them. But that's</span></p>
<p><span class=rvts6>RN> just wishing I guess!</span></p>
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<p>Bye Jan </p>
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