[Beowulf] If I were specifying a new custer...

[Jonathan Engwall]

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 <chris at 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)
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  Chris Samuel  :  http://www.csamuel.org/  :  Melbourne, VIC
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