[gmx-users] workstation

[Mark Abraham]

Hi,

This question comes up frequently in the archives, so please search. In
particular, there's even a full paper you will find linked there :-)

Mark

On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 4:00 PM Cyril Bauvais <cyril.bauvais at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Dear gmx users,
>
> I would like to know if you can help me to choose between two bases of
> workstations.
> I allready use a i7-6700K and one GTX 980 with gromacs and got good
> acceleration with my systems (8ns/day with cpu only and 30ns/day with
> cpu+gpu).
>
> I need one more workstation. I can not test these workstations before buy
> so I need to estimate what will be the optimal solution (for a reasonnable
> price)
>
> 1. another workstation with 1 i7-6700 K and two maybe three GTX 980
> in this case, the CPU will be able to 'feed' the GPUs ?
> should I considere GTX 980 TI ? (i do single precision calcs)
>
> 2. a workstation with two Xeon.. so 4 GPUs GTX 980 or GTX 980 TI would give
> excellent performance, right ?
>
> any idea or suggestions ?
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Cyril
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