Recent content by disjtr1

quote: just trying to understand the need for such expensive systems ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Well as explained earlier, I do need such an expensive system. I sometimes wonder though why someone would give me the...

Sorry as an afterthought, what would be really helpful would be benchmarks (probably just MFlops would be good) comparing alternative architectures and processors. Does anything like that exist? I have had a look at the Java Scimark benchmarks: Scimarks From this the Suns look good as does...

Thank you for all the replies. They contain some thought provoking ideas. It seems that the key is that I think carefully about exactly what I will be doing. My current work essentially splits into two parts: a) Monte-Carlo simulations. These are complex biological simulations. Lots of...

That is really a very comprehensive reply. Thank you for explaining those hard drive issues to me.

Thanks for replying, I will check out SuperMicro as a vendor. I am based in the UK and are considering these people since they seem to have experience with Linux workstations: digital networks UK Has anybody any feedback on them? I am pretty confident on my choice of CPUs, the...

Hello, I am not sure whether this is the most appropriate forum for this but I can not find a better one. I have just started a new job as a computational scientist. For the first time in my career I actually have quite a lot of money to spend on a workstation. Of the order of $10000 each...