[gmx-users] Clovertown vs Woodcrest gromacs experiences?

[Erik Lindahl]

Agreed - although I must say that the Q6600 2.4GHz desktop single- 
socket quad-cores are looking very nice too for small clusters. You  
get a complete machine with memory and everything for ~$800, and  
apparently they overclock very well too :-)

Cheers,

Erik


On Aug 27, 2007, at 10:05 AM, Ansgar Esztermann wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 09:56:32AM +0200, Erik Lindahl wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Quad-core is the way to go. I recently benchmarked the scaling of the
>> CVS version, and with 8 independent jobs we get 85-97% throughput
>> scaling, depending on the type of simulation. And you get essentially
>> the same performance if you run two jobs using 4 cores each.
>> Even for a single simulation parallelizing over all 8 cores (lots of
>> communication), the scaling is 70-90% with CVS.
>
> I'll second that. With our systems, we got around 80% scaling on 8
> cores as well. Considering the relatively low price of the quads, I'd
> definitely go with the quads.
> Besides, density might be an issue as well: a single unit in a 19"
> rack can easily cost 1k$ or more, so doubling the density may save a
> lot of money.
>
> A.
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