Hi,
we would like to buy a workstation for running VASP calculations.
For the same price we can get:
1) 2 x 6 core Xeon 5690 Westmere 3.47 GHz, which gives 24 cores, Hyperhreading enabled
2) 2 x 16 core AMD Interlagos/Bulldozer 2.1 GHz
RAM, HD, etc. is comparable for both options.
Do you have any experience with the new AMD CPUs? Should we go for higher freq, less cores, or low freq, more cores?
Thanks a lot for your input
Workstation for VASP: AMD or Intel?
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Hi Dr_Nick,
first question: how large is your typical system?
Cheers,
alex
first question: how large is your typical system?
Cheers,
alex
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Hi Alex,
You are right, I should have mentioned that: 80-200 atoms.
By the way, we plan to run Gaussian and CP2K calculations on this machine as well.
I should also mention that we already have a workstation with the setup described in 1 (Xeon 5690). However, I am not really satisfied with the performance. While the single core performance is great, the scaling with VASP is OK only up to 8 CPUs (i.e. 4 "real cores").
You are right, I should have mentioned that: 80-200 atoms.
By the way, we plan to run Gaussian and CP2K calculations on this machine as well.
I should also mention that we already have a workstation with the setup described in 1 (Xeon 5690). However, I am not really satisfied with the performance. While the single core performance is great, the scaling with VASP is OK only up to 8 CPUs (i.e. 4 "real cores").
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Hi Dr_Nick,
have you seen this posting:
http://cms.mpi.univie.ac.at/vasp-forum/ ... hp?2.11198 ?
are you aware that HT is of no use for high performance computing? The cores are fully loaded ...
Cheers,
alex
have you seen this posting:
http://cms.mpi.univie.ac.at/vasp-forum/ ... hp?2.11198 ?
are you aware that HT is of no use for high performance computing? The cores are fully loaded ...
Cheers,
alex
Last edited by alex on Fri Jun 15, 2012 9:43 am, edited 1 time in total.