ADVICE on DESKTOP for computational purposes

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antoniogargano

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Hi guys

I'm an academic researcher, I need to buy a desktop at my office, I do not have any cash constraint (university will pay for it)

I only use desktop to analyze data (sometimes giga of data) with software such as Matlab, R, SAS.

Do you have an advice about the specifications that better fit my needs?
 
SSD is the last thing to get, and only get it if you have money left at the end of teh build. Much like a sound card if you don't listen to musik or game.

My suggestion would be a 3930k or maybe xeon depending on how often you will be working the data, and how much data you have to work.
Does the programs you are running support GPU accelleration, or Tesla processing?
 
What about the comparison between these two?

a) HP h8-1540t - 2700$
*Win 8
*2nd Generation Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3970X six-core processor [3.5GHz, Shared 15MB Cache]
*32GB DDR3-1600MHz SDRAM [4 DIMMs]
*256GB Solid state drive

b) Dell Precision T3600 $3,723.14
* Win 7
* Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-1650 (Six Core 3.2GHz, 12M, Turbo+)
* 32GB, DDR3 RDIMM Memory, 1600MHz, ECC
* 256GB, 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Drive
 
Must it be prebuilt? As you will be able to get a far better system if you buy the parts and put it together yourself.

Of the 2, get the dell hands down.
 
I can assemble the parts...

Where can I buy them...?

And last question...what about this Mac Pro instead ?
a) 4,849.00
Two 2.40GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon processors (12 cores)
24GB (6X4GB)
512GB solid-state drive

is it better to have "Two 2.40GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon processors (12 cores)" or "Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-1650 (Six Core 3.2GHz, 12M, Turbo+)"?
 
From what I saw looking for info about your programs, they seem to take advantage of as many cores/threads as you have available. So the mac would be better there. but you can get a better machine building it yourself always.

Budget?
Location? (country is enough. would not do us any good to recommend you parts from places that won't ship to you)

And can you find out if the programs take advantage of Tesla computing or not? That will make a big difference in what we recommend.
 
wolfeking said:
From what I saw looking for info about your programs, they seem to take advantage of as many cores/threads as you have available. So the mac would be better there. but you can get a better machine building it yourself always.

Budget?
Location? (country is enough. would not do us any good to recommend you parts from places that won't ship to you)

And can you find out if the programs take advantage of Tesla computing or not? That will make a big difference in what we recommend.
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My budget is around 4.000$-4.500$
I'm in San Diego, California
Yes Matlab takes advange of Tesla computing
 
Aye, no room for a tesla in a $4500 budget. That would hardly cover the card. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814132008 for reference.

Assuming it will work with non tesla GPUs, then I am going to recommend 2 Titans over the Quadros in that range (seeing as it is a compute part anyway).


so build should look something like this:

Case: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811147157
Motherboard: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131886
PSU: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817194096 (likely too much, but worth the piece of mind)
2x CPU: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819117269
2x RAM: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820239433
2x HDD RAID 0: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822236342 If Data security is not important to you, then you could swap these for a Samsung 840 pro SSD.
2x GPU: http://www.amazon.com/EVGA-GeForce-...&qid=1365909978&sr=1-3&keywords=geforce+titan (not in stock at newegg, you can likely get them strait from EVGA if you try)

Should do the job. And you need an OS.
 
wolfeking said:
Aye, no room for a tesla in a $4500 budget. That would hardly cover the card. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814132008 for reference.

Assuming it will work with non tesla GPUs, then I am going to recommend 2 Titans over the Quadros in that range (seeing as it is a compute part anyway).


so build should look something like this:

Case: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811147157
Motherboard: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131886
PSU: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817194096 (likely too much, but worth the piece of mind)
2x CPU: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819117269
2x RAM: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820239433
2x HDD RAID 0: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822236342 If Data security is not important to you, then you could swap these for a Samsung 840 pro SSD.
2x GPU: http://www.amazon.com/EVGA-GeForce-...&qid=1365909978&sr=1-3&keywords=geforce+titan (not in stock at newegg, you can likely get them strait from EVGA if you try)

Should do the job. And you need an OS.
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Thanks a lot! I learned a lot today!
 
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