back to article They're not a travelling polka band, they're German HPC kids packing Big Iron

Home country Germany was well represented at the recent Student Cluster Competition at the 2014 International Supercomputer Show in Leipzig, Germany. Part of the task for students is to find a vendor partner and work with them to put together the best cluster for the event. Of course, the next difficult bit is making sure the …

  1. Steve Channell
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    why no phi?

    The biggest change to the "Team Chemnitz" rig seem to be that they ditched the Intel Xeon Phi cards and just went with the NVidia Tesler cards... would be interesting to get their take on the relative performance

    1. phil dude
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      Re: why no phi?

      Quite! and while they are at it, is there a link for how much to build (using Amazon say!) and run this beast (with cripping UK power rates...)?

      They could download the Gromacs MD code, which is GPU aware, and we could see how many wobbles/sec we get.....

      I'm happy to provide the protein model...

      P.

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