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Dear All,

I'm currently looking into buying a new workstation (PC) to run TELEMAC software. I would very pleased if someone could let me information what kind of workstations to buy to reduce the computational time of TELEMAC.

Memory...?
CPU type....?
Operating System: Windows 7 64 bit...?
Display Resolution...?
Display Card:?
and etc...

Many thanks

Hi

I think you should envisage to see the problem differently.
What kind of model did you plan to run?
What is the money you could invest in the workstation?

This will allow you to see if the parallelism is really important in your case and the number of processors. Then you could check the different possibilities...

Display resolution and card doesn't have any effect on the computational time.
Linux instead of windows would prabably be more efficient...
Best processor will give the best results...
Memory / processor could have a effect...
Network connection (in case of cluster) have also an impact

Regards

PS: think to update your profile!

Thank you for your information,

I have plan to use the TELEMAC-2D software designed to perform a hydrodynamic simulation in two horizontal space dimension, in addition, to simulate the transport of dissolved tracers.

fund has no limit to invest in the workstation.

Warm regards

OK but what will be the size of your model (estimation of the number of nodes or element)

There is no strict rules but our experience shows an optimum level of parallelism for 1000 nodes/proc.

For large 3D models, we use a cluster where the simulation could run on 96 proc.
I don't know how many processors you could have on a workstation but maybe you could find 12 or 16 cores.
Cores and processors are not exactly similars as some memory could be share by the cores...
I'ts better to have more processors and less cores/proc rather the opposite...

regards