[gmx-users] How to buy a new cluster?

[David van der Spoel]

On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 13:05 -0500, Ran Friedman wrote:
> Relating to the same topic - are 64bit processors really superior when
> running GMX, especially considering their higher price and slower
> clock speed relative to the conventional 32bit processors?
check the benchmarks
www.gromacs.org/benchmarks/single.php

the athlon64/opteron chips are 50% faster per clock as the Xeons. 

Especially to answer this question I have updated the table above with a
column "rate" giving a processor speed per clock cycle.


-- 
David.
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