<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Hi Jussi,</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Many thanks for your email. As you said I am using an old version of Fedora (5) and because there are not many highly experienced linux IT person around, I am hesitating to upgrade it. Currently I am using an 8 node cluster each composed of two dual core </span><font color="#636034"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Opteron 2212 CPUs. I am managing the cluster, but am not on top it. </span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Cheers,</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Siavoush</span><br></font></div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;
font-size: 10pt;"><br><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Jussi Lehtola <jussilehtola@fedoraproject.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> users@lists.fedoraproject.org<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Mon, 17 January, 2011 2:51:08 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: Dell PowerEdge M710 with Intel Xeon 5667 processor<br></font><br>On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 01:02:17 -0800 (PST)<br>Siavoush Dastmalchi <<a ymailto="mailto:siavoush11@yahoo.com" href="mailto:siavoush11@yahoo.com">siavoush11@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br>> Many thanks for your kind reply. I know that those programs works<br>> under linux and am currently using them under fedora. What I want to<br>> know is the suitability of Dell PowerEdge M710 with Intel Xeon
5667<br>> processor for parallel computation under linux system.<br>> By the way, I always have problem with this yum command. Issuing the<br>> following commands gives me error:<br>> <br>> $ yum list "*gromacs*"<br>> Loading "installonlyn" plugin<br>> Setting up repositories<br>> extras<br>> [1/2] Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: extras<br>> Cannot find repomd.xml file for extras<br>> Error: Cannot find repomd.xml file for extras<br><br>You must be running an age-old distribution of Fedora. Extras were<br>merged in Fedora in Fedora 7, that is 2.5 years ago.<br><br>GROMACS has been included in Fedora since Fedora 10.<br><br>If you're going to run GROMACS only on a single node, then practically<br>any system should do.<br><br>However, if you want to do really parallel runs (more than one node<br>for a single computation), then you probably have to invest in a decent<br>interconnect such as InfiniBand,
otherwise your parallel performance<br>will be handicapped by the latencies and slow bandwidth.<br><br>You're better off asking what kind of a cluster to buy on a GROMACS<br>list, <a href="http://www.gromacs.org/Support/Mailing_Lists" target="_blank">http://www.gromacs.org/Support/Mailing_Lists</a> .<br>-- <br>Jussi Lehtola<br>Fedora Project Contributor<br><a ymailto="mailto:jussilehtola@fedoraproject.org" href="mailto:jussilehtola@fedoraproject.org">jussilehtola@fedoraproject.org</a><br>-- <br>users mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:users@lists.fedoraproject.org" href="mailto:users@lists.fedoraproject.org">users@lists.fedoraproject.org</a><br>To unsubscribe or change subscription options:<br><a href="https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users" target="_blank">https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users</a><br>Guidelines: <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines"
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