On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Jerker Nyberg <jer...@update.uu.se> wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Apr 2010, Peter Kjellstrom wrote: > > My experience is that in HPC it always boils down to price/performance and >> that would in my eyes make apples out of Magnycour and Westmere. >> > > I just ordered two desktop systems with Intel i7-860 2.8 GHz QC and 16 GB > RAM for evaluation, to run as computation nodes for our CPU-bound batchlike > application. I'll figure out the performance/price later but it seems to be > significantly better than Xeons from the same vendor. It feels like 15 years > ago all over again. I guess the major drawback is the lack of ECC RAM, so > maybe they get their second life as ordinary desktops sooner rather than > later... > Actually, if you look hard enough ( http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?Model=X58%20SuperComputer - or better yet, ASUS P6T6-WS ), and a Xeon i7-860 ( X3460 - http://www.siliconmadness.com/2009/09/intel-releases-lynnfield-updates-xeon.html), which is priced slightly higher and BOTH support ECC RAM on commodity grade hardware. Best regards, Tiago > > Regards, > Jerker Nyberg. > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf >
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