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Hardware for CFD Academic Enthusiest
Hi All,
I am a recently graduated uni student who is about to embark on a rather low key development project with my friends race team. I will be using CFX to develop a new aerodynamics package for his vehicle and would like some advice regarding suitable hardware for this sort of operation. My basic questions are: CPU-Quad Core vs Dual Core? Processor speed? Ram-Speed or quantity? HDD-Speed important here? I am building a dedicated coputer to run these operations and will doing pre and post on my current workstation. I am limited by budget to 775 socket hardware, however, this should give me the grunt I need to solve 10-50M Node problems. Current system: e5300 OC @ 3.6GHz Asus P5QL Pro 8GB (4x2) DDR 2 800MHz RAM 2x500 WD Black RAID0 Thanks in advance. Lloyd |
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Though mine is a Laptop , i have a i5 processor , 4 Gb ram DDR3 and 500 Gb hard disk with 3 MB cache size,and 1 Gb graphics card of ati radeon mobility series,. and average one . guess this should do gud ?? what is your opinion ?
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You are going to have a very difficult time getting enough ram to load a 50M node problem on a desktop machine without disk thrashing. That is a fairly large problem and I would suggest instead perhaps springing for a few diskless 1U server nodes. The setup will be a bigger hassle but you will be much happier with your capabilities in the end.
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