Anyone here running Linux on dual core CPUs 2001

General Schvantzkoph

Yeah, I was looking for a low end number cruncher for my research (I'm a PhD student). It is being bought on a student's budget. Although I have access to the college's parallel supercomputing cluster, it is less suitable for my work (see below).

I was planning on overclocking it from 2x2.66GHz to maybe 2x3.9GHz or so.

OK thanks.

The program I had in mind is LS Dyna. It has a MPP version available, but tests on my college's parallel cluster show that MPP results are very different from single processor Dyna results.

This may be due to my research involving materials undergoing very high strains over milli-microsecond timescales. The inner workings of finite element analyses is not my forte but suffice to say I have doubts about domain decomposition methods for parallel FE models working under the above circumstances.

Hence my interest in just doing the runs on a single very fast CPU, and me asking whether a dual core CPU setup would need a MPP version (thus negating the whole point of avoiding MPP Dyna on a parallel cluster).

Fortunately it looks like I will be fine with a dual core CPU and single processor LS Dyna.