[Vis5d-users] Re: Dream vis5d intel/amd box?

These days I recommend "Intel" chips and Linux.  You need
enough memory for your data sets.  I recommend fast graphics
from nVidea or similar.  And a fast processor clock speed.
I have no opinion on Intel versus AMD.

Cheers,
Bill

"Neil R. Smith" wrote:
> 
> What would be your dream Intel/AMD platform and OS for vis5d? And
> if you couldn't have that, then what would be a second, and then
> maybe a third choice?
> 
> And for grins, let's say in addition to the processor, Intel or AMD,
> you were confined to a Unix-variant OS that would need to do NFS
> client mounts of data filesystems from SGI IRIX and Compaq True64
> (Digital Unix). You would be thinking in terms of a teaching
> lab of, say, 20 such beasts, and a budget cap of say $3500-4000 each.
> 
> I would like to direct this primarily to the vis5d creators and
> its maintainors, but would also like to hear anyone's desired
> configuration based on your experiences and knowledge of the
> software and its usages.
> 
> I assume that an optimum machine/OS selection would be based on
> the best match of processor/chip set speed and compilers that know
> how to take best advantage of its optimization features to do the
> vis5d program tasks. Next (or firstly) might be graphics and display
> considerations with proven driver stability for the OS and hardware
> match. There are certainly more items of critical cnosideration
> and I'd like to hear them, too.
> 
> As you can easily guess, I'm planning for an atmospheric sciences
> teaching lab concerned primarily with synoptic scale data analysis
> and model display and exploration. That would include the
> operational model data sets but also MM5 model explorations, too.
> That might give an idea of minimum L1,L2,RAM & VRAM.
> 
> Many thanks in advance to all who might chime in. -Neil
> --
> Neil R. Smith, Comp. Sys. Mngr.         ne...@ar...
> Dept. Atmospheric Sci., Texas A&M Univ. 979/845-6272 FAX:979/862-4466

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