Here, in Luxembourg, we have recently purchased Dell worstations with RedHat
5.5 preinstalled. You will find a summary bellow (price was lower for the
University). The idea was to have multi-purpose workstations, which would be
good for graphics as well as for running calculations. Of course, for medium
or long-term calculations we can use a cluster, but for shorter term
calculations it is often more convenient to run them locally. We are quite
happy with the machines as they are far less noisy than similar setups from
other providers (they can release quite a lot of heat, though).

To summarise, each computer has 2x six-core Xeon processors, 48 GB of RAM, a
Quadro FX 5800 (for 3D display) graphics card, 2x Tesla  C2050 (for GPU
computing), 2 fast SATA system disks and one backup disk.

In theory, it is possible to have 4x GPUs with this motherboard, however, in
practice, if you have Quadro and/or Tesla, there is room only for 3x. Of
course, if you don't need 3 GPUs, you can have less RAM. If you do not need
3D display, you can also buy a cheaper card. Instead of the 2x six-core
processors, you can have 1x or 2x dual, quad or six core.

To complete the set up, we also bought a professional Eizo FlexScan *SX2462W
* monitor (for colour accuracy) and a 3D monitor. A 3D navigator may also be
useful if you plan to analyse biomolecules in 3D.



*Recalculating Price*

Dell Precision T7500n Dual Processor
Price$16,240.00

Discount DetailsPreliminary Ship Date: *10/1/2010*

My SelectionsAll Options
*Dell Precision T7500n Dual Processor*
Date 9/21/2010 4:54:13 AM Central Standard TimeCatalog Number
70 Retail rc968571Catalog Number / Description Product Code Qty SKU Id*Dell
Precision T7500n*:
Dell Precision T7500n T7500N 1 [224-5229] 1*Power Supplies*:
Precision T7500 Power Supply SPSC 1 [330-8364] 20*Operating System*:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS v5.3 for EM64T 64bit system w/ 1 YR RHN, w/
Media RH531Y 1 [421-0526] 11*Processor*:
Dual Six Core Intel® Xeon® Processor X5670, 2.93GHz,12M L3, 6.4GT/s, turbo
2XX5670 1 [317-4258] 2*Memory*:
48GB,1333MHz,DDR3RDIMM,ECC(9DIMMS) 48G3E39 1 [317-3488] 3*Graphics*:
4.0GB NVIDIA® Quadro® FX 5800, DUAL MON, 1DP & 2DVI FX5800S 1 [320-7890] 6*Hard
Drive Configuration*:
C3 All SATA drives, Non-RAID, 3 drive total configuration SATA3 1 [341-8815]
 9*Hard Drive Internal Controller Option*:
Integrated LSI 1068e SAS/SATA 3.0Gb/s controller NSASCTL 1 [341-9290] 24*Boot
Hard Drive*:
300GB SATA, 10K RPM Hard Drive with 16MB DataBurst Cache™ 300S102 1
[341-8836] 8*2nd Hard Drive*:
300GB SATA, 10K RPM Hard Drive with 16MB DataBurst Cache™ 300S10A 1
[341-8837] 23*3rd Hard Drive*:
1.5TB SATA 3.0Gb/s, 7200 RPM Hard Drive with 32MB DataBurst Cache™ 15TBSA 1
[341-9041] 54*Optical Devices*:
16X DVD+/-RW, Data Only DVRW16 1 [313-7457] 16

On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 3:15 AM, David McLean <[log in to unmask]
> wrote:

>  Hi,
> Just looking for any recommendations for computer hardware to use or to
> stay away from. I'm looking to build a reasonably fast, dual/multi processor
> system but can't afford to end up with a system that is so cutting edge that
> it is not supported. Our institution gets good deals through Dell so I'm
> sure they will purchase a Dell system as opposed to specifying individual
> components, but I'm still concerned with SATA support and various graphics
> device support.
>
> Any suggestions, recommendations, or warnings are welcome!
>
> Thank you for your time.
> --
>
> *David L. McLean
> Research Automation Engineer
>
> [image: VIIBRE -Vanderbilt Institute for Integrative Biosystems Research
> and Education]
>
> 6805.4 Stevenson Center
> VU Station B 351807
> Nashville, TN 37235-1807
>
> Ph: 615.343.4124
> Fx: 615.322.4977
> www.vanderbilt.edu/viibre
>
> [log in to unmask] *
>



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Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB)
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L-1511 Luxembourg

Phone : +352 46-66-44-6117
E-mail : Eldemiro.Moman at uni.lu

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