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Dear Hernando,<br>
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Your system has virtually no disk space allocated. We tend to
configure such systems with one SSD for all software and swapping
area, and a large RAID array for the data processing. Since the
raw data sets we work with nowadays easily exceed 1Tb, you will
need 10-20 fold that amount of space for processing of each
project. I would thus serious look into adding a 20+ Tbyte of
local RAID array (as Steven also suggested).<br>
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Cheers<br>
<br>
Marin <br>
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On 08/11/2014 00:07, Hernando J Sosa wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear EM users,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We have some money to spend (<10K) in a
personal workstation mainly to be used for number crunching
and single particle analysis. I came across this system (see
below) made by a company called Thinkmate.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Does anybody have experience with this
company? <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Any comments on the system ?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">As configured it has 64 cores (4 x 16) and
128 GB of RAM<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I chose AMD Opteron over Intel as it seems
to produce the best price/performance but I may be wrong.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Any comments suggestions are welcomed.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks<o:p></o:p></p>
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