Recent content by alphaten

Thanks! I'll go with the Xeon system. Self built? If this were a personal computer, I'd build it myself (not Xeon though). Since I'm spending other people's money (taxpayers), I feel like I should buy it through typical channels.

I'm going to be running a lot of finite element analysis for PhD work the next couple of years, and I am about to choose my computer. Unfortunately, the computer program I will be primarily running is 32-bit and single threaded (right now); however, and I can (and will) be running multiple...