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I am sending you this message to get a clarification regarding the following points :</font></span></font></div>
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<div style="text-indent:-18pt; margin:0px 0px 0px 36pt"><font face="Times New Roman,serif" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" color="black">1.</font><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" color="black"> </font><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" color="black">While
using Paraview, </font><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">is there an added value in using SSD disks or is the workload only RAM dependant</font><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" color="black">? Does </font><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">using SSD technology improve</font><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" color="black"> the
software speed?</font></span></font></div>
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<div style="text-indent:-18pt; margin:0px 0px 0px 36pt"><font face="Times New Roman,serif" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">2.</font><font face="Calibri,sans-serif"> </font><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" color="black">During
the visualisation, do we need a cutting edge technology for the GPU of the server or a small chipset can do the graphical job</font><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">? On what level is the graphical workload done, on the server or on the workstation/pc layer.</font></span></font></div>
<div style="text-indent:-18pt; margin:0px 0px 0px 36pt"><font face="Times New Roman,serif" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" color="black">3.</font><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" color="black"> </font><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" color="black">Our
currently adopted configuration is as follows (Not final, your comments are appreciated)</font></span></font></div>
<div style="text-indent:-18pt; margin:0px 0px 0px 72pt"><font face="Times New Roman,serif" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font face="Courier New" color="black">o</font><font face="Courier New" color="black"> </font><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" color="black">Dual
Dell R730xd servers with up to 26 2.5 inch hard drives each</font></span></font></div>
<div style="text-indent:-18pt; margin:0px 0px 0px 72pt"><font face="Times New Roman,serif" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font face="Courier New" color="black">o</font><font face="Courier New" color="black"> </font><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" color="black">Dual
E5-2650 v4 2.2Ghz 30MB Cache 12 cores/24 threads each (total of 24 cores/48 threads)</font></span></font></div>
<div style="text-indent:-18pt; margin:0px 0px 0px 72pt"><font face="Times New Roman,serif" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font face="Courier New" color="black">o</font><font face="Courier New" color="black"> </font><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" color="black">1TB
RAM</font></span></font></div>
<div style="text-indent:-18pt; margin:0px 0px 0px 72pt"><font face="Times New Roman,serif" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font face="Courier New" color="black">o</font><font face="Courier New" color="black"> </font><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" color="black">2
x 300GB 10k HDDs for OS</font></span></font></div>
<div style="text-indent:-18pt; margin:0px 0px 0px 72pt"><font face="Times New Roman,serif" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font face="Courier New" color="black">o</font><font face="Courier New" color="black"> </font><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" color="black">24
x 600GB SAS 15k Drives for data/app</font></span></font></div>
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H730p 2GB Cache RAID Controller</font></span></font></div>
<div style="text-indent:-18pt; margin:0px 0px 0px 72pt"><font face="Times New Roman,serif" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font face="Courier New" color="black">o</font><font face="Courier New" color="black"> </font><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" color="black">2
x 10Gb + 4 x 1Gb ports</font></span></font></div>
<div style="text-indent:-18pt; margin:0px 0px 0px 72pt"><font face="Times New Roman,serif" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font face="Courier New" color="black">o</font><font face="Courier New" color="black"> </font><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" color="black">The
resources of this server may also be shared to run another application at the same time so it would be useful to know how much of these resources we need to dedicate to Paraview for full functionality (also taking into account disk performance (IOPS) requirements)</font></span></font></div>
<div style="text-indent:-18pt; margin:0px 0px 0px 36pt"><font face="Times New Roman,serif" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" color="black">4.</font><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" color="black"> </font><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" color="black">We
aim to start running locally on the server, but move to a clustered environment in the future (HPC)</font></span></font></div>
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expect 5 to 10 concurrent users.</font></span></font></div>
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<div style="margin:0px"><font face="Times New Roman,serif" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" color="black">Thanking you in advance for your feedback,</font></span></font></div>
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<div style="margin:0px"><font face="Times New Roman,serif" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" color="black">Best regards,</font></span></font></div>
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<div style="margin:0px"><font face="Times New Roman,serif" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" color="black">Chady Ghnatios </font></span></font></div>
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