-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 09/01/13 23:42, Jörg Saßmannshausen wrote:
> I was wondering whether people on the list here have some first > hand experiences with this. I have been asked to purchase a single > machine with around 500 GB of RAM. We would not need more than 8 > cores here. The job simply needs that much of memory (and even then > it is running for 14 days). We have 4 systems with 1TB of RAM, all Intel Westmere-EX systems, 1 SGI UV10 with 4 sockets (32 cores) and 3 IBM x3690's (dual socket 16 cores) with Maxx5 QPI expansion units. So that's easily doable. What is the code you are running? cheers, Chris - -- Christopher Samuel Senior Systems Administrator VLSCI - Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative Email: sam...@unimelb.edu.au Phone: +61 (0)3 903 55545 http://www.vlsci.org.au/ http://twitter.com/vlsci -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlD04jEACgkQO2KABBYQAh/nJQCfb4OuQbq0z31zL0tAnipPnso7 bjQAnjebxAdbIWo6NGgV5gthkbE2hhCI =iYm8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 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