[brogers]

Hello all! First, I would like to say that I'm happy to finally be apart of this community. It has helped me out tremendously for the last couple of years in undergrad and into grad school, so it's nice to no longer be just a lurker.

I am configuring a few potential builds for doing my doctoral research as our office servers and blades get bogged down by my office mates. I will be funding and building this machine myself. To not get into the semantics on what hardware would be adequate for my needs (another post of questions for another time), I'd like to ask a more etiquette related question.

What is the general consensus in the publishing community (JFM, AIAA Journal and Conference Papers, etc.) about the use of overclocked CPUs (unlocked and overclocked core i series processors) and NON-ECC memory to obtain results intended for publishing? For the memory part of the question, I'm not just referring to DRAM, but also NVIDIA Geforce vs Quadro and Tesla for GPGPU related programming. I'm worried that the use of this hardware is frowned upon due to the increased instability of overclocked CPUs and RAM compared to "workstation" grade hardware.

Thanks in advance. Any help is greatly appreciated.