On 2010-05-02 10.32, Alexey Shvetsov wrote:
Hi,

Actualy suppermicro offers 4 socket machines with 12-core amd cpus so
you get 48cores in 1U
GROMACS perform well on such hardware =)

Sure but a simple rule of thumb is that you want to maximize aggregate clockspeed per dollar. Such machines might be quite a bit more expensive than the simpler ones.

In case of using Infiniband you need IB switch of dual port ib cards (to
connect machines as a 1d torus)



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