hey all,
im helping a friend build a workstation so he can run transport models as he's recently decided to start up his own consultancy.
apologies if the info here is second hand, but i've gathered as much info from him as i can.
he is used to using a lenovo p920 which is configured to have:
2 x Intel Xeon Silver 4110s , 1TB SSD , Quadro P400 , 32GB RAM (2 x 16GB)
the application he runs are transport modelling apps such as PTV Visum/Vissim and Bentley Cube.
i found the application requirements for PTV which is here:
https://company.ptvgroup.com/en-us/system-requirements
i imagine Bentley would be similar since they are both transport modelling applications.
he says that on the p920 he runs up to 4 instances of the software to run models , but for big models he can only do one because of lack of computing power. so if he can run 4 big models in parallel, it would be a good outcome for him (of course, budget and system specs pending).
so im looking to put together a dual xeon system for him with similar components or better that are in the p920.
i would like some advice on what components would go together for Case, Motherboard, CPU, RAM, Storage and PSU.
he says he would like more cores, more threads , so overall a more powerful machine.
for storage, he needs 1 x SSD to run his modelling on, and say another hard drive just for storage.
thanks in advance.
im helping a friend build a workstation so he can run transport models as he's recently decided to start up his own consultancy.
apologies if the info here is second hand, but i've gathered as much info from him as i can.
he is used to using a lenovo p920 which is configured to have:
2 x Intel Xeon Silver 4110s , 1TB SSD , Quadro P400 , 32GB RAM (2 x 16GB)
the application he runs are transport modelling apps such as PTV Visum/Vissim and Bentley Cube.
i found the application requirements for PTV which is here:
https://company.ptvgroup.com/en-us/system-requirements
i imagine Bentley would be similar since they are both transport modelling applications.
he says that on the p920 he runs up to 4 instances of the software to run models , but for big models he can only do one because of lack of computing power. so if he can run 4 big models in parallel, it would be a good outcome for him (of course, budget and system specs pending).
so im looking to put together a dual xeon system for him with similar components or better that are in the p920.
i would like some advice on what components would go together for Case, Motherboard, CPU, RAM, Storage and PSU.
he says he would like more cores, more threads , so overall a more powerful machine.
for storage, he needs 1 x SSD to run his modelling on, and say another hard drive just for storage.
thanks in advance.
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