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Re: workstation buying advice

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Hi,

lina wrote:
> Can you help me with a rational configuration for a decent computer
> run solely for the computational purpose.

Well, i am a software developer. My experience is restricted to choosing
the parts for a new desktop computer every 5 years.
But out of curiosity i already discussed your configuration with a friend
who is more into hardware purchase and assembly.

We wondered what kind of work can keep 104 CPU threads busy but needs
neither GPU power nor a high amount of disk space. Our bet was CAE until
we discovered that your graphics output needs are covered by "1 VGA port".

He joined my opinion about the 500 W power supply. We would install
at least twice as much as is expectable under full workload.

He also pointed out that the components are probably quite noisy.
After all there is a lot of heat to be shovelled out of the box.
So i would look for a big tower which gives more room and can house
more fans at lower speed.

Another aspect is that he deems an AMD Ryzen Threadripper with 32 cores
better than a Xeon with 26 cores ... theoretically. Prices would be similar.
But we did not look for mainboards with two 32 core CPUs or a single
64 core CPU.


Klaus Singvogel wrote:
> did you notice that the Supermicro comes with a redudant power supply?

No.
Google ... does that mean that 500 W "redundant" is as powerful as 1000 W
"normal" as long as the power supply works flawlessly ?
(Here we can see how much i know about real server hardware.)


Have a nice day :)

Thomas

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workstation buying advice lina <lina.lastname@gmail.com> - 2020-07-15 12:20 +0200
  Re: workstation buying advice "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2020-07-15 14:00 +0200
    Re: workstation buying advice lina <lina.lastname@gmail.com> - 2020-07-15 14:40 +0200
    Re: workstation buying advice Klaus Singvogel <deb-user-ml@singvogel.net> - 2020-07-15 15:00 +0200
      Re: workstation buying advice Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2020-07-15 15:30 +0200
      Re: workstation buying advice "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2020-07-15 15:40 +0200
  Re: workstation buying advice Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2020-07-15 14:50 +0200
    Re: workstation buying advice lina <lina.lastname@gmail.com> - 2020-07-15 15:00 +0200
      Re: workstation buying advice Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2020-07-15 15:30 +0200
    Re: workstation buying advice rhkramer@gmail.com - 2020-07-15 15:30 +0200
  Re: workstation buying advice ghe2001 <ghe2001@protonmail.com> - 2020-07-15 16:40 +0200

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