[gmx-users] best price/performance for GMX?

[Peter Tieleman]

I haven't looked into buying anything new recently, but from the prices of
desktops it seems dual processor
Pentium 4 Xeons at 1.8 GHz or so might become interesting too. Increased
single processor speed would be useful for larger jobs that otherwise would
have problems with the mpi-scaling of PME. Has anyone tried dual processor
P4's yet?

Cheers,
Peter

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: gmx-users-admin at gromacs.org [mailto:gmx-users-admin at gromacs.org]On
> Behalf Of Erik Lindahl
> Sent: Sunday, October 07, 2001 10:56 AM
> Cc: gmx-users at gromacs.org
> Subject: Re: [gmx-users] best price/performance for GMX?
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
> We're just about to upgrade the existing cluster in Groningen with more
> dual-P3 machines;
> it might be interesting for you to know that Intel are rumoredly
> planning to
> stop producing
> SMP-capable P3's by december 1st, so if you want some you should
> order fast!
>
> It's no real problem; I'm sure Dual Athlons will be a wonderful
> alternative
> soon, but right
> now the're still somewhat untested in clusters, and the motherboards and
> memory somewhat
> expensive.
>
> Erik
>
>