Hello,
I would be interested in a stopgap system (mobo+cpu+ram) while I am waiting for amd to complete its zen2 rollout. I do not see getting anything new until sometime next year. Also, I have never dabbled with server parts, hence I am looking for suggestions if such can be made.
Background: I am running 24/7 fluid simulation research codes of my own writing that do turbulent flow computations with amd gpu acceleration ie fortran/c/opencl. This means loads of double precision floating point calculations (fp64).
The current setup is a 3930K with 32Gb and 2x Radeon vii. This cpu has to go. I am looking for 2nd-hand (refurbished?) cpu with more cores and speed but with at least all the 3930k fp extensions, 40 pci3 lanes, mobo with at least 2 full x16 pci3 slots (a plx chip with more slots would be nice) and at least 64gb ddr3(4?) (non ecc is ok). An x99-based system looks plausible. Btw, this is about EU-priced systems. What can be got with 500 euros?
Thanks.
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I would be interested in a stopgap system (mobo+cpu+ram) while I am waiting for amd to complete its zen2 rollout. I do not see getting anything new until sometime next year. Also, I have never dabbled with server parts, hence I am looking for suggestions if such can be made.
Background: I am running 24/7 fluid simulation research codes of my own writing that do turbulent flow computations with amd gpu acceleration ie fortran/c/opencl. This means loads of double precision floating point calculations (fp64).
The current setup is a 3930K with 32Gb and 2x Radeon vii. This cpu has to go. I am looking for 2nd-hand (refurbished?) cpu with more cores and speed but with at least all the 3930k fp extensions, 40 pci3 lanes, mobo with at least 2 full x16 pci3 slots (a plx chip with more slots would be nice) and at least 64gb ddr3(4?) (non ecc is ok). An x99-based system looks plausible. Btw, this is about EU-priced systems. What can be got with 500 euros?
Thanks.
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