Hi,
Thank you very much to those of you who sent replies to my last email on
this subject. I thought that it might be worth me explaining our
situation a little more.
Basically, we are being quoted very good prices for the woodcrest 5130
which typically seems to have SpecInts2Ks of ~2100/core when running on
one core according to the SpecInt web pages. We had been assuming that
we would be buying something like the Opteron 280 but these are coming
in at about £300 more per dual slot dual core machine and according to
the SpecInt pages have typical values of around 1600/core SpecInt2K.
There are many issues here the desire to full fill our MoU commitments,
how well our actual codes run on these machines ... not to mention that
the SpecInt figures are actually calculated on a single core while the
rest of machine is doing nothing and therefore may not reflect
performance when there are 4 jobs running on each box.
I am very keen to make the purchase in the next day or two and so any
information on either of these options would be very useful indeed.
All the best and thanks for your help,
david
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