[gmx-users] Final Workstation Specs

[Erik Lindahl]

Hi there,

I'm actually in the moscone center right now, and I've been able to 
play around a bit with the new machines in Apple's development lab.

This is still a bit early, and there are a couple of things to sort 
out, but a G5 running at 2GHz will provide about 20% better performance 
for Gromacs than a Xeon running at 3GHz.

At least for US universities Apple also discounts

(The G5 dual G5 will also scale better, but I haven't been able to test 
that yet since LAM-MPI doesn't work due to a bug somewhere...)

Cheers,

Erik


On Tuesday, June 24, 2003, at 12:54 PM, DaJustice1 at aol.com wrote:

> Jason D.
>
> Look at the new G5's from Mac, they can out perform the dual Xeons.  
> It doesn't hurt that they are also 64 bit, and have a 1 GHz frontside 
> bus.  ($2999)
>
> D. Justice
>
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