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Old   March 24, 2008, 14:51
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Danial
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Dear All,

I will be using Comsol Multi-physics or Adina to simulate Fluid-structure Interactions (strongly coupled) and I will start with a 2D-3D Karman street simulation (probably turbulent later). Then continue with an elastic fiber Fluid-structure Interactions simulations.

I have got an offer which is:

1 x CELSIUS R650

2 x Quad-Core Xeon X5460 3.16GHz 2x6MB 1333

4 x 4GB FB-DIMM PC2-5300 ECC (2x 2GB)

1 x NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600 1.5GB

1 x Second NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600 1.5GB

3 x HDD SAS 300GB 15k

1 x HDD SATA II 750GB 7.2k business-critical

[Around 6,500 Euro]

Is this a good workstation to simulate such systems? (fsi scales are 1cm x 5cm x 40cm)

Do you recommend a better system than this?

Eagerly looking forward to your responses.
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Old   March 24, 2008, 16:04
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Is dual graphics-card really needed?

Can you utilize all cores with Comsol or Adina?
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Old   March 24, 2008, 17:34
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Hi F.P.,

Comsol can use multi-core since version 3.4. Adina I don't know yet (trial cds on the way)

Graphic cards will be used for another 3D visualization software called Imaris (for another college)

Cheers Danial
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Old   March 24, 2008, 17:43
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The system will be much too noisy if you want to have it in the same room. Wrong HDDs and wrong graphics.
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Old   March 25, 2008, 04:09
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Any recommendation?
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