Hi Thomas, Can you help me with a rational configuration for a decent computer run solely for the computational purpose. I am not good at it, highly appreciated.
Thanks, lina On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 1:57 PM Thomas Schmitt <scdbac...@gmx.net> wrote: > > Hi, > > lina wrote: > > [...] workstation [...] > > [...] Supermicro X11DPi-N [...] > > CPU S3647 Intel Xeon Gold 6230R 2,1-4,0GHz 36MB 26-core 52-thread 150W 2,00 > > The CPU is very recent. But it seems not to be allergic to Linux > http://www.spec.org/cpu2017/results/res2020q2/cpu2017-20200331-21877.html > > The mainboard seems to work with elderly Linux kernels: > https://www.supermicro.com/support/resources/OS/C621.cfm?page=2 > > > > DDR4 32GB PC21300 2666MHz RDIMM ECC REG Samsung 1,2V 6,00 > > One never can have too much RAM. > > > > Supermicro CSE-732i-R500 [...] 500W > > If already your CPUs are specified to have a TDP of 150 W each then a 500 W > power supply appears dangerously close to the minimum requirements: > https://www.servethehome.com/supermicro-x11dpi-n-e-atx-motherboard-review/ > "We find an idle power draw of 132 watts and Peak of 394 watts to be > quite common" > That was with 130 W Xeons. > > > > my past experience that my SSD was invisible during installation. > > One would probably need to know what went wrong with which Debian release > in order to make a qualified guess for the current Debian release. > > > > The purpose of this workstation is for parallel computation purposes. > > I would call such a thing a server. :)) > > > Have a nice day :) > > Thomas >
