Backtest & Analysis Machine - AMD or Intel?

main line into the house.... wow...

I just hand built a VW diesel engine and an old CNC machine into a really awesome generator and the cost for that is about 3 gallons a day so that's only like $150/month in fuel @ $5 gal.

I know you are in Europe and it's been a while since I've been there and rented a car so I have no idea what prices are per liter. In the states things are shady and crooked. Can you just get your neighbor to complain as well and have the power utility company pay to dig up the streets as part of "general demand"?
 
You guys might want to double check your CPU licensing.

Because most CPUs have multiple cores these days, most manufacturers have moved to a per socket license. Usually 1-2 or 2+ sockets licensing.
 
if your code is distributed as opposed to threaded.There are ivy bridge blades with 8 quads. I seem to recall one with infiniband built in.

I have been thinking of 64 core AMD option you have been considering NetTecture but I am still in the sw devel phase. Given your recent posts about coding prices as integers, that is probably the most efficient option for you. For most they don't get as good a deal since there is only one fpu per 2 cores. If you come across one of those 4 socket AMD that is 1U with dual power supplies please post that. I have only found one power supply.
 
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if your code is distributed as opposed to threaded.There are ivy bridge blades with 8 quads. I seem to recall one with infiniband built in.

I have been thinking of 64 core AMD option you have been considering NetTecture but I am still in the sw devel phase. Given your recent posts about coding prices as integers, that is probably the most efficient option for you. For most they don't get as good a deal since there is only one fpu per 2 cores. If you come across one of those 4 socket AMD that is 1U with dual power supplies please post that. I have only found one power supply.
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Well, here sis a problem with your "for most ist won't be as good a deal". Intel has a LOT LESS cores than AMD - and HyperThreading is a LOT less limited than a Bulldozer "half core". AMD pretty much shares ONLY the FPU - Intel shares a LOT more ;)

I am not sure I want dual power supply on that - I mean, power supplies rarely fail an at the end a calculation unit can fail once a year for a missing spare part ;)

Blades: I wish they would make sense. I really like blades, I like their pricing. I do not like the price for the blade center which makes it all a totally loosing value proposition. Eba has refurbished (!) M1000e blade centers from Dell for 5000 USD. 6 Power supplies, KVM, 2 control modules. OUCH. At the end that means you are a t a loss and never recover - Blade are not THAT much cheaper. Quite .... ;) Limiting ;)
 
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yeah but at the same clock that amd is roughly 1/2 of intel sandybridge . If any part of your code is single threaded its more of a concern (lots of sql servers)

here is a nice 4 socket amd with the ability to put in 2 gpus in addition to 10GbE
http://www.supermicro.com/Aplus/motherboard/Opteron6000/SR56x0/H8DGG-QF.cfm
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Not totally, but yes - speed wise. Which SO much sucks that it is not even funny anymore. Plus it uses more power, but the price of high end sandy bridges are SO damn - hm - expensive that using 4 AMD is still better ;)

Your links is off, though - nice to say it is a quad socket, but it clearly shows a dual socket.

I would go for an Dell M1000e if that stupid blade center (not the blades) would not be SO DAMN EXPENSIVE.
 
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