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Table 1 Hardware features

From: High-Throughput parallel blind Virtual Screening using BINDSURF

 

Processors for a $3000 high-end server

 

CPU

GPU

Release date

Q4 2009

Q4 2009

Codename

Intel Westmere

Nvidia Fermi

Estimated cost

$500

$1500

Commercial model

Xeon E5620

Tesla C2050

No. cores @ speed

4 @ 2.4 GHz

-

No. stream processors

-

448 @ 1.15 GHz

L2 cache size

12 MB.

768 KB. .

DRAM memory size

16 GB.

3 GB.

DRAM type

DDR3

GDDR5

Memory bus width

128 bits

384 bits

Memory clock

1066 MHz

2 × 1.5 GHz

Memory bandwidth

17 GB/s

144 GB/s

  1. Summary of hardware features for the CPUs and GPUs used during our experimental survey.