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February 16, 2014, 05:45	Cluster v.s. very large workstation	#1
Anna Tian Senior Member Meimei Wang Join Date: Jul 2012 Posts: 494 Rep Power: 15	Hi, Some companies sell very large workstations which contain even more than 32 CPUs and 128 cores. So why do people still like to build complex and expensive cluster but not just using a large workstation in their office? What are the advantage of clusters over workstation if they have same hardwares (CPUs, RAM...)? For example, my department want to build a 32 CPUs (128 cores) and 128 GB ram computational power for CFD calculation. We shall choose cluster or large workstation? DungPham likes this. __________________ Best regards, Meimei

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