[phenixbb] Hardward phenix.refine

Kay Diederichs kay.diederichs at uni-konstanz.de
Tue Apr 12 12:57:57 PDT 2016


Colin,

check out the first option in the FAQ at
https://www.phenix-online.org/documentation/faqs/refine.html

A core i7 and a Xeon of the same generation are equally fast if their
frequency is the same. The main differences are that
- Xeon E3 supports ECC memory (most core i* don't)
- Xeon E5 supports Dual-CPU (core i* is just one)
- Xeon E7 supports multi-CPU and is very expensive
- most Xeons don't have built-in graphics whereas most core i* do
There are many other small differences but most of them irrelevant;
inspect the Wikipedia pages!

Xeons won't be faster with phenix.refine; a core i7 already has enough
cores - to increase their usage you'll have to recompile as per the FAQ.

HTH,

Kay

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> Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2016 07:56:39 +0000
> From: Colin Levy <C.Levy at manchester.ac.uk>
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> Subject: [phenixbb] Hardward phenix.refine
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> Dear all,
> 
> Having read the FAQ regarding hardware I have a few ideas but would greatly appreciate any input from the community or developers.
> 
> Would anyone like to suggest the best configuration of hardware for running phenix.refine? I mainly operate in OSX but have no issue with switching operating system if I can get a faster setup.  My current thoughts are either something running a 4GHz Quad core i7 or an alternative would be a 3.7GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon E5 (iMac v Mac Pro) or equivalent Linux builds.
> 
> I know that the i7 is reasonably fast as I have this setup in a different machine and phenix.refine runs reasonably quickly but as ever I would like it to be faster. Budget is not unlimited by any means but I would be interested in learning what an optimal setup might look like.
> 
> Many thanks,
> 
> Colin
> 
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