I am interested to know if apple new product "mac pro" is suitable for running cpu+gpu studies, is it beneficial?
Any one have experience running Gromacs on MAC pro?
how we can compare below systems performance ?
which parameters should be set to get the best cost effective system,
how much RAM is required and so on ...
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configure1
3.7GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon E5 processor
12GB 1866MHz DDR3 ECC memory
Dual AMD FirePro D300
with 2GB GDDR5 VRAM each
256GB PCIe-based flash storage1
cost = $2,999.00
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configure 1-D700
3.7GHz quad-core with 10MB of L3 cache
12GB (3x4GB) of 1866MHz DDR3 ECC
256GB PCIe-based flash storage
Dual AMD FirePro D700 GPUs with 6GB of GDDR5 VRAM each
$3,999.00
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configure 2-D500
3.5GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon E5 processor
16GB 1866MHz DDR3 ECC memory
Dual AMD FirePro D500 with 3GB GDDR5 VRAM each
256GB PCIe-based flash storage1
$3,999.00
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configure 3
3.0GHz 8-core with 25MB of L3 cache
16GB (4x4GB) of 1866MHz DDR3 ECC
256GB PCIe-based flash storage
Dual AMD FirePro D500 GPUs with 3GB of GDDR5 VRAM each
$5,499.00