[mesa-users] Reccomendations on hardware to run MESA

[Michael Zingale]

We've been buying from ASL for a while.  They have dual 18-core Haswell
machines (36 cores total) available now:

http://www.aslab.com/products/workstations/marquisc735.html

pricey, but I'm sure they're fast.

Mike


On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 7:47 PM, Francis Timmes <fxt44 at mac.com> wrote:

> hi pablo,
>
> i suspect we’ll see several 12-18 core haswell based solutions over the
> next few months,
> with the dell's poweredge being among the first. broadwell, in a limited
> sense, was released
> this past september. one of the lenova laptops has them for example. i’m
> unaware of any
> bigger multi-core broadwell solutions. skylark will see its first limited
> release in late 2015.
>
> you’re right about continually waiting for the next advance ;)
>
> i’ll see about running a few hyperthread test cases on my 12-core mac.
>
> fxt
>
>
>
>
> > On Feb 23, 2015, at 1:22 AM, Pablo Marchant <pamarca at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > With my little knowledge of how processors actually work, I dont think
> hyper threading could help MESA that much. As far as I know it can optimize
> workloads where different threads are performing different kinds of
> operations (like integer versus float arithmetic) but most of MESAs heavy
> lifting is floating point. As intel claims (if i remember correctly)
> speedups up to 30%, id be surprised if it makes much of a difference for us.
> >
> > Regarding hardware for MESA, I was checking some of the poweredge
> solutions solutions offered by dell. They have nice dual socket options
> with haswell (v3) processors, but I wonder how far away are the broadwell,
> or even skylake, updates. Anyhow, one can stay eternally waiting for
> whatever comes next...
> >
> > El 21/2/2015 7:48, "Francis Timmes" <fxt44 at mac.com> escribió:
> > has anyone run experiments with and without hyperthreading
> > on current generation intel chips?
> >
> > fxt
> >
> >
> >
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