[Wien] AMD or intel CPU

[ali ghafari]

Dear Prof. Marks
Thank you for your advice. for optimize system does it matter which operating system we use or not? for example Debian is better or Ubuntu?
Best Regards
Ali



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 From: Laurence Marks <L-marks at northwestern.edu>
To: A Mailing list for WIEN2k users <wien at zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at> 
Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2012 2:01 PM
Subject: Re: [Wien] AMD or intel CPU
 

N.B. Wien works on both platforms, in case that was not obvious
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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 7:00 AM, "Laurence Marks" <L-marks at northwestern.edu> wrote:

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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