To be honest, how much are they paying you to take it? Can you sell it for scrap?
X5550 has 4 cores, so 32 dual CPU nodes is 256 cores. The X5550 was released January 2009... computers have moved on a bit. To compare, two dual CPU servers with Skylake Gold 6148 - that is 40 cores - will probably beat the whole lot even if you could keep the cluster going. And keeping clusters busy is a time consuming challenge... I know! When the load is low, the new servers will be even more attractive... Then there are the running costs and support challenges... where will spares come from? If they are 250W servers, then you are looking at £8000 per year to power and cool it. The two modern servers will be more like £1500 per year to run. And the servers will only cost about £6000... the economics and planet don't stack up! Just my two penn'th worth -- Dr Robert Esnouf University Research Lecturer, Director of Research Computing BDI, Head of Research Computing Core WHG, NDM Research Computing Strategy Officer Main office: Room 10/028, Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, Old Road Campus, Roosevelt Drive, Oxford OX3 7BN, UK Emails: rob...@strubi.ox.ac.uk / rob...@well.ox.ac.uk / robert.esn...@bdi.ox.ac.uk Tel: (+44)-1865-287783 (WHG); (+44)-1865-743689 (BDI) -----Original Message----- > From: "V F" <veronicapfiorent...@gmail.com> > To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK > Date: 23/11/18 13:11 > Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] buying a cluster > > Hello Peter > Thanks for quick replies. > > > (1) a single large machine with 32 cpus, or: > > No > > > > (2) a system with 32 separate computers linked together in a network? > > > Yes > Each node has HP ProLainat that contains 2x Intel Xeon Processor X5550 > (quad-core, 2.66 GHz. > > ######################################################################## > > To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1
