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I am looking to run mapping cancer markers on a refurbished workstation. It has dual Xeon 5400 CPUs. I plan to add a Tesla K80 to it as well. I understand mapping cancer markers does not have WUs that run on cuda so the GPU will be used for projects that do.
I am not very knowledgeable about computer hardware. Your thoughts on this setup, please. |
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Falconet
Master Cruncher Portugal Joined: Mar 9, 2009 Post Count: 3315 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I can't tell you if those Xeon's are good or not (efficiency-wise and all) since I don't own server CPU's but regarding the GPU, most likely any GPU applications in the future will be OpenCL, something for which Nvidia is not very good but AMD is. Not that CUDA applications won't ever exist but OpenCL works on both AMD and Nvidia while CUDA does not.
----------------------------------------So unless you want to crunch other project like GPUGrid with that card, I would hold off on that purchase.  - AMD Ryzen 5 1600AF 6C/12T 3.2 GHz - 85W - AMD Ryzen 5 2500U 4C/8T 2.0 GHz - 28W - AMD Ryzen 7 7730U 8C/16T 3.0 GHz |
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OldChap
Veteran Cruncher UK Joined: Jun 5, 2009 Post Count: 978 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I am tempted to say that 5400 series cpu's are getting a bit long in the tooth now. 45nm and core based architecture whilst still capable of getting wu's done is possibly a bit poor on the power efficiency front.
----------------------------------------If you own the machine already then OK but looked at longer term say if you considered the total cost of ownership over 3 years you may well find this is not a good choice. It may come down to your priorities: Are points important? Runtime? number of wu's completed in a day? How about setup cost? Power cost? I would say that a single 2600K may do everything a pair of 5440's would do but at less cost https://cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Xe...mp;id=1235&cpuCount=2 https://cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i7-2600K+%40+3.40GHz&id=868 The above two bwnchmarks seem to confirm my thoughts  [Edit 1 times, last edit by OldChap at Jul 12, 2015 12:17:27 PM] |
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Sgt.Joe
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I am looking to run mapping cancer markers on a refurbished workstation. It has dual Xeon 5400 CPUs. I plan to add a Tesla K80 to it as well. I understand mapping cancer markers does not have WUs that run on cuda so the GPU will be used for projects that do. I am not very knowledgeable about computer hardware. Your thoughts on this setup, please. The XEON 5400 series is code named "harpertown" and I have a couple of boxes runinng the E5405 and the E5410 versions. They do quite well with MCM1 even if they are several years old. They are not hyperthreaded. The nice thing about the Xeons and the workstation setup is they are built to run 24/7 without a problem. The gpu is not used at this time for WCG, but may be in the future again. Good luck with your box and crunch on. Cheers
Sgt. Joe
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noderaser
Senior Cruncher United States Joined: Jun 6, 2006 Post Count: 297 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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IMHO, everything helps. Welcome aboard.
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