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

[Ran Friedman]

David van der Spoel wrote:

>On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 13:05 -0500, Ran Friedman wrote:
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>>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?
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>check the benchmarks
>www.gromacs.org/benchmarks/single.php
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>the athlon64/opteron chips are 50% faster per clock as the Xeons. 
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I've run a few tests, including the benchmark, and the opterons were a 
little bit slower.
Following your input (and some discussions on the mailing list), I 
suspect that this was due to the compilation of gmx, fft or both - I've 
compiled gmx using gcc.

Can any of the GMX users/developers comment on it?

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