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<BODY style="font-family:'Times New Roman'; font-size:13px"><div>Dear, QE users!</div><div>We are planing to buy new cluster hardware for our lab purposes. The plan is to have 64 physical cores.</div><div>I have a bunch of questions regarding this:<br></div><div><br></div><div>1. Which network is preferable? Is Gbit enough? or Infiniband does the best? </div><div>2. Is it critical to have fast drives for local tmp filesystem on Gbit ethernet? Or it's considered better to have one common tmp through Infiniband and get rid of HDD's on nodes? </div><div>3. What is the amount of RAM recommended per 1 core in a node? </div><div><br></div><div>With best regards,</div><div>Koroteev Victor</div></BODY></HTML>