[gmx-users] Computing Resource - Laptop

[VITALY VITALIEVICH CHABAN]

Considering given conditions, I would buy as many cheap desktops as
possible as opposed to one cool machine.




On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 8:38 PM, Szilárd Páll <pall.szilard at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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.
>
> --
> 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.
> >
> > -Douglas Grahame
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > 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
> > Sent: February 24, 2015 3:20 PM
> > To: Discussion list for GROMACS users
> > Subject: Re: [gmx-users] Computing Resource - Laptop
> >
> > Did you mean laptop, desktop or both? I To be honest, would not use
> laptops for anything but lightweight analysis tasks.
> > --
> > Szilárd
> >
> >
> > 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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