Subject: Re: CCL:Opteron or Nocona ?

From: Gustavo Seabra <gustavo.seabra %a% gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 14:31:06 -0500

On 5/7/05, Luigi Cavallo <cavallo %a% chemistry.unina.it> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> we are going to invest some money for a few computers, and we have to
> make a decision between the AMD-Opterons and the Intel-Nocona. What's
> better ? We are experienced with the Opterons, but we have no idea about
> the Noconas...
> 
> Major codes to run on them will be classical QM packages as ADF, G03, TM,
> some AIMD as CPMD, and possibly some classical MD as gromacs.
> 
> Thanks,
> Luigi
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Notice that AMD has recently launched the Dual Core Opteron
processors. There you can basically get the equivalent of twice as
much processors, for about the same price. Check:

http://www.infoworld.com/infoworld/article/05/04/21/17TCamd_1.html

http://www.d-silence.com/story.php?headline_id=21036&comment=1

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