Hardware Recommendation for Parallel Processing

Brian Bian

Hi, All,

I am new in CFX world. By reviewing the posts, for parallel simulation, so far my impression on best hardware settings regarding the speed are:

1) Faster single CPU clock speed (everyone knows it) 2) More CPU cache 3) AMD Opteron (or whatever can avoid memory bottleneck) 4) 64Bit CPU and OS can improve a little (not crucial) 5) Network speed upgrade can improve a little (not crucial) 6) Unix OS can achieve relatively faster or more stable speed 7) ????

Please add more and correct me if I am wrong.

I am using a Dell 2650 server with four Xeon 2.4 GHz CPUs and a Dell Precision with two Xeon 2.2 GHz CPUs. Both computers have 2G ram. I have CFX 10 and 4 parallel licenses. It is not a surpise that I am not satified with current hardware configuration. I am looking the best and cost effective way to improve my simulation speed. Any suggestion is welcome.

Brian