<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Jerker Nyberg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jerker@update.uu.se">jerker@update.uu.se</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On Thu, 1 Apr 2010, Peter Kjellstrom wrote:<br>
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My experience is that in HPC it always boils down to price/performance and<br>
that would in my eyes make apples out of Magnycour and Westmere.<br>
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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...<br>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Actually, if you look hard enough ( <a href="http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?Model=X58%20SuperComputer">http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?Model=X58%20SuperComputer</a> - or better yet, ASUS P6T6-WS ), and a Xeon i7-860 ( X3460 - <a href="http://www.siliconmadness.com/2009/09/intel-releases-lynnfield-updates-xeon.html">http://www.siliconmadness.com/2009/09/intel-releases-lynnfield-updates-xeon.html</a> ), which is priced slightly higher and BOTH support ECC RAM on commodity grade hardware.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Best regards,</div><div>Tiago</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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Regards,<br><font color="#888888">
Jerker Nyberg.</font><div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
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