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Hi,
I haven't built a system for over ten years now and there has certainly been a lot of progress since then. Enough to where I feel I really don't have a good overview of the market anymore. It used to be simple!
This will be my typical workload:
Working with CAD on VMWare under Ubuntu is OK but a bit painful. I need more cores and RAM also.
So what about:
I have a case that I can use. Can someone comment on feasibility? I'm happy with the 2670QM single thread performance and from what I understand it's been mostly incremental performance upgrades last couple of years. I do need AVX though so nothing less than Sandy Bridge will do. It does make a big difference in DP matrix solve performance as well as FFTW3 what I find myself waiting for.
Comments?
/K
I haven't built a system for over ten years now and there has certainly been a lot of progress since then. Enough to where I feel I really don't have a good overview of the market anymore. It used to be simple!
This will be my typical workload:
- ESXi platform
- One Win7 Professional instance running scientific CAD software such as Ansys.
- One instance running Ubuntu 14.04 with typical tasks being compiling, GNU Radio development, etc.
Working with CAD on VMWare under Ubuntu is OK but a bit painful. I need more cores and RAM also.
So what about:
- Dual E5-2670
- Motherboard with DP and 16 DDR sockets. Probably start with 64GB but might want to upgrade to 128GB later.
- Dual grapics card. I want to send each card via VT-d to Linux and Win7 respectively.
- 1TB, or dual 512GB, SSD drives for OS installation.
I have a case that I can use. Can someone comment on feasibility? I'm happy with the 2670QM single thread performance and from what I understand it's been mostly incremental performance upgrades last couple of years. I do need AVX though so nothing less than Sandy Bridge will do. It does make a big difference in DP matrix solve performance as well as FFTW3 what I find myself waiting for.
Comments?
/K