<p>N.B. Wien works on both platforms, in case that was not obvious</p>
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Professor Laurence Marks<br>
Department of Materials Science and Engineering<br>
Northwestern University<br>
<a href="http://www.numis.northwestern.edu">www.numis.northwestern.edu</a> 1-847-491-3996<br>
"Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought"<br>
Albert Szent-Gyorgi<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Jun 27, 2012 7:00 AM, "Laurence Marks" <<a href="mailto:L-marks@northwestern.edu">L-marks@northwestern.edu</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<p>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.</p>
<p>If you are buying a cluster, get the vendor to let you benchmark. </p>
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Professor Laurence Marks<br>
Department of Materials Science and Engineering<br>
Northwestern University<br>
<a href="http://www.numis.northwestern.edu" target="_blank">www.numis.northwestern.edu</a> 1-847-491-3996<br>
"Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought"<br>
Albert Szent-Gyorgi<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Jun 27, 2012 6:53 AM, "ali ghafari" <<a href="mailto:aaghafari@yahoo.com" target="_blank">aaghafari@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>Dear Profs. Blaha and users</div>
<div>We want to buy new computer for Wien2k calculation. The question is which kind of platforms (AMD or inlet) are suitable for Wien2k package?
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<div>Best Regards</div>
<div>Ali<br>
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