[Wien] AMD or intel CPU

[Laurence Marks]

The advantage of Intel chips is that the ifort compiler and mkl libraries
are do a good job optimising for them. Sometimes they are not so fast for
AMD. However, other things such as RAM, disk speed, cache also matter.

If you are buying a cluster, get the vendor to let you benchmark.

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Professor Laurence Marks
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Northwestern University
www.numis.northwestern.edu 1-847-491-3996
"Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody
else has thought"
Albert Szent-Gyorgi
 On Jun 27, 2012 6:53 AM, "ali ghafari" <aaghafari at yahoo.com> wrote:

>  Dear Profs. Blaha and users
> We want to buy new computer for Wien2k calculation. The question is which
> kind of platforms (AMD or inlet) are suitable for Wien2k package?
>  Best Regards
> Ali
>
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