Building cluster to run VASP
Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2012 10:59 am
Dear Colleagues,
We are currently in the process of building a cluster, which will be mainly used for VASP simulations. Those include both DFT and hybrid-DFT, GW and NEB simulations.
I would like to ask your advice regarding the appropriate hardware:
The head node: two eight-core Intel Xeon E5-2650 processors, 64 GB memory, and two 300GB SAS disks.
Computing nodes: eight-core Intel Xeon E5-2650, 64GB memory, 2TB SATA disk.
What would be appropriate for the scratch, SDD, HDD drive?
I would appreciate any comments and suggestions.
Thank you in advance,
Kind regards,
Monica
We are currently in the process of building a cluster, which will be mainly used for VASP simulations. Those include both DFT and hybrid-DFT, GW and NEB simulations.
I would like to ask your advice regarding the appropriate hardware:
The head node: two eight-core Intel Xeon E5-2650 processors, 64 GB memory, and two 300GB SAS disks.
Computing nodes: eight-core Intel Xeon E5-2650, 64GB memory, 2TB SATA disk.
What would be appropriate for the scratch, SDD, HDD drive?
I would appreciate any comments and suggestions.
Thank you in advance,
Kind regards,
Monica