[Wien] AMD or intel CPU

[Laurence Marks]

OS, no idea. All are equally good (or bad).

On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 12:57 PM, ali ghafari <aaghafari at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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>
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> 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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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