Re: workstation buying advice

[lina <lina.lastname@gmail.com>]

Hi Thomas,

Can you help me with a rational configuration for a decent computer
run solely for the computational purpose.
I am not good at it, highly appreciated.

Thanks, lina

On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 1:57 PM Thomas Schmitt <scdbackup@gmx.net> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> lina wrote:
> > [...] workstation [...]
> > [...] Supermicro X11DPi-N [...]
> > CPU S3647 Intel Xeon Gold 6230R 2,1-4,0GHz 36MB 26-core 52-thread 150W  2,00
>
> The CPU is very recent. But it seems not to be allergic to Linux
>   http://www.spec.org/cpu2017/results/res2020q2/cpu2017-20200331-21877.html
>
> The mainboard seems to work with elderly Linux kernels:
>   https://www.supermicro.com/support/resources/OS/C621.cfm?page=2
>
>
> > DDR4 32GB PC21300 2666MHz RDIMM ECC REG Samsung 1,2V 6,00
>
> One never can have too much RAM.
>
>
> > Supermicro CSE-732i-R500 [...] 500W
>
> If already your CPUs are specified to have a TDP of 150 W each then a 500 W
> power supply appears dangerously close to the minimum requirements:
>   https://www.servethehome.com/supermicro-x11dpi-n-e-atx-motherboard-review/
>   "We find an idle power draw of 132 watts and Peak of 394 watts to be
>    quite common"
> That was with 130 W Xeons.
>
>
> >  my past experience that my SSD was invisible during installation.
>
> One would probably need to know what went wrong with which Debian release
> in order to make a qualified guess for the current Debian release.
>
>
> > The purpose of this workstation is for parallel computation purposes.
>
> I would call such a thing a server. :))
>
>
> Have a nice day :)
>
> Thomas
>