Re: workstation buying advice
Hi Dan,
ThinkStation P620 Tower Workstation is the one you mentioned?
https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/think-workstations/thinkstation-p-series/ThinkStation-P620/p/33TS3TPP620
Thanks, lina
On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 2:48 PM Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> wrote:
>
> lina wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am trying to get a workstation with the following configurations:
> >
> > Moderkort S3647 Supermicro X11DPi-N 16DDR4 2GLAN 2NVMe 10SATA3 4+2PCIE IPMI EATX
> > CPU S3647 Intel Xeon Gold 6230R 2,1-4,0GHz 36MB 26-core 52-thread 150W 2,00
> > Kylning CPU S3647 Supermicro narrow aktiv 4U 3800rpm 38dB max 205W 2,00
> > Minne DDR4 32GB PC21300 2666MHz RDIMM ECC REG Samsung 1,2V 6,00
> > Hard disk M.2 NVMe 1,9TB SSD Samsung PM983 3000/1400 server
> > 1,3DWPD/3years 22110 1,00
> > Supermicro CSE-732i-R500 EATX 2USB3, 2USB2 4*3,5 2*5,25 500W RPS tyst 21dB 1,00
> >
> > motherboard are highly appreciated. The purpose of this workstation is
> > for parallel computation purposes.
>
> This will work. You will want a larger power supply.
>
> For best price/performance for large parallel workloads, you may
> be better off with an AMD ThreadRipper or EPYC system.
>
> The Intel CPU has a list price of $1800 US.
>
> An AMD TR4 2990WX is 32 cores / 64 threads at 3 GHz, and has a
> list price of $1200 US. It performs better and costs
> significantly less.
>
> An AMD TR4 3970X is 32c / 64 t at 3.7 GHz, matches the list
> price of the Intel and will perform much, much better.
>
> Either of them will need a TR4 motherboard, and Supermicro
> currently doesn't offer those. All of them should work well with
> Debian.
>
> -dsr-
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