You can narrow things down for instance you could start with warranty and support. Location is a factor too. You want every kind of stability, reliable power, cold water and to be near your suppliers, factoring in airports or interstate highways.
On October 11, 2018, at 3:07 PM, Chris Samuel <ch...@csamuel.org> wrote: On 12/10/18 08:50, Scott Atchley wrote: > Perhaps Power9 or Naples with 8 memory channels? Also, Cavium ThunderX2. I'm not sure if Power or ARM (yet) qualify for a general HPC workload that Doug mentions; sadly a lot of the commercial codes are only available for x86-64 these days. MATLAB dropped PowerPC support back in 2007 for instance. All the best, Chris (still in the UK) -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC _______________________________________________ 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 _______________________________________________ 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
