[dussa]

Hi all,

I've got the opportunity to spec a new machine for research purposes. We will be using this machine as a prototyping platform for jobs (OpenFOAM, LIGGGHTS, CFDEM, Fluent etc.) in our research group before we submit long running jobs to the Raijin cluster (national cluster) as our university is decommissioning its cluster in December with no replacement.

Also I already have a GTX Titan Xp, so despite people probably suggesting that of course I just use Raijin, we also would like a workstation to house the Titan Xp.

I saw the NVIDIA Devbox (https://developer.nvidia.com/devbox), obviously aimed more at deep learning than CFD, however I am curious if using it as inspiration for my workstation is a good idea. So far I am thinking of:

Threadripper 1950x (16-core)
1 x Titan Xp (possibly SLi in future when more funds are available)
64gb (4 x 16gb) RAM 3200MHz (128gb at 8x 16gb again when more funds are available)
512gb SSD
Large storage drives etc.

Does anyone have any opinion or experience with something like this? Any issues with the Threadripper CPUs?

Regards,
Rob