Hi Shimon - I would like to point out that (as Nadav did already) that perhaps (if this is early enough in the development cycle), a GPU might be a good choice. Even your *current* off-the-shelf graphics card might be "faster" that your 4-core CPU for certain types of computations. For only a few hundred shekels, you can get a MUCH faster GPU, and for a few thousand shekels, you can get a whole rack's worth of x86 compute power in a 1U case. Perhaps you will save money now if you have someone who is familiar with "number crunching" hardware take a look.
-MIke On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 1:23 PM, Shimon Panfil <i...@industrialphys.com>wrote: > > Hi folks, > I'm looking for affordable workstation for heavy number crunching, not > x86-64 multicore. It seems that multicore systems have problems with cooling > (physically it is pretty clear). My current amd-64 4-core machine works fine > only if less than 2 cores have 100% load. Rougly 2*100 work 20 min before > temperature becomes high, 4*100 can last couple of minuts only. Last year I > have already burned processor and do not want repeat the experience. > > I'll be glad to know my options other than open the box and add fans or set > air conditioner in my working place to very low temperature. > > -- > Shimon Panfil: Industrial Physics and Simulations > http://industrialphys.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il >
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