[gmx-users] Computing Resource - Laptop

[Szilárd Páll]

How many? What kind of simulations and analysis (asking to know if
you'll need many cores, few&fast cores, GPUs, etc.)?

4000 CAD is a quite decent sum, it should get you at least 2 fast workstations.

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Szilárd


On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 9:36 PM, Douglas Grahame <dgrahame at uoguelph.ca> wrote:
> Sorry I meant desktop, laptop must have been a mental error as I'm looking for a new personal laptop.
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> -Douglas Grahame
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> From: gromacs.org_gmx-users-bounces at maillist.sys.kth.se [mailto:gromacs.org_gmx-users-bounces at maillist.sys.kth.se] On Behalf Of Szilárd Páll
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> Did you mean laptop, desktop or both? I To be honest, would not use laptops for anything but lightweight analysis tasks.
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> On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 6:10 PM, Douglas Grahame <dgrahame at uoguelph.ca> wrote:
>> Hey everyone I'm not sure if this is the place to post this or not so
>> my apologies if it is not. Our lab recently got some funds to put
>> towards a desktop for molecular dynamics work and we have a budget of
>> aprx. $4,000 CDN for the laptop. Given that I am not an expert in the
>> hardware area, nor do I have a ton in the simulation area either, I
>> wanted to see if there was any suggestions or resources or even
>> experiences that this mailing list may have so that we can get the most out of our money.
>>
>>
>>
>> Primarily the computer will be used to run GROMACS and be used for
>> analysis and some small scale simulation work. We do have access to
>> supercomputing clusters which will serve as the primary resource for
>> modelling. Thanks for your help in advance!
>>
>>
>>
>> -Douglas Grahame
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