Dear all,
Following a discussion on a good workstation for bioinformatics work...
We are working on bacterial/plasmids/viruses genomes. Things we are doing at small scale today and that we are going to do more (i.e. scale up to hundreds of bacterial genomes) are mapping, de novo assembly, genome alignments, pan/core genome analyses, comparison by SNP and pairwise blast etc.
I approached our IT dept with basic specs for a workstation based on messages I found in the forum and in the respective forums of the programs we work with.
Below is what a vendor suggested to the IT team and now I was asked to check if that looks good enough. Since my knowledge on hardware is poor, I would be glad to get some feedback here.
I already asked that the OS is changed to Linux... I first thought on a dual-boot system, but as I read and think about it, I think that this should be mainly a Linux (Bio-Linux?) system, with a Windows VM if needed. I cannot think on any bioinformatic program that will work on Windows but not on Linux... we are still mostly working within Windows (with Linux VM), but I guess that we should make a final change over Linux now.
Thanks in advance!
Base Unit HP Z840 Workstation
Packaging HP Single Unit Packaging
Chassis HP Z840 1125W (1450W/200V) 90% Eff Chass
Operating System 10*Pro 64 downgrade to Win7 Pro 64 *
Add-On Selection Operating System Load to PCIe
Recovery Media Windows 7 Pro 64-bit OS DVD+DRDVD
Processor Intel Xeon E5-2630v3 2.4 1866 8C 1stCPU
Processor 2 Intel Xeon E5-2630v3 2.4 1866 8C 2ndCPU
System Memory 128GB DDR4-2133 (16x8GB) 2CPU RegRAM
Graphics Card NVIDIA NVS 310 1GB 1st GFX
Internal Storage 01 HP Z Turbo Drive 256GB PCIe 1st SSD
Internal Storage 01 4TB 7200 RPM SATA 1st HDD
Internal Storage 02 4TB 7200 RPM SATA 2nd HDD
Internal Storage 03 4TB 7200 RPM SATA 3rd HDD
Internal Storage 04 4TB 7200 RPM SATA 4th HDD
Internal Storage 05 4TB 7200 RPM SATA 5th HDD
Optical Device 1 9.5mm Slim SuperMulti DVDRW 1st ODD
Media Card Reader HP 15-In-1 Media Card Reader
Warranty HP 3/3/3 Warranty
Country Kit HP Z840 Country Kit
Add-On Selection HP Dual Processor Air Cooling Kit
Following a discussion on a good workstation for bioinformatics work...
We are working on bacterial/plasmids/viruses genomes. Things we are doing at small scale today and that we are going to do more (i.e. scale up to hundreds of bacterial genomes) are mapping, de novo assembly, genome alignments, pan/core genome analyses, comparison by SNP and pairwise blast etc.
I approached our IT dept with basic specs for a workstation based on messages I found in the forum and in the respective forums of the programs we work with.
Below is what a vendor suggested to the IT team and now I was asked to check if that looks good enough. Since my knowledge on hardware is poor, I would be glad to get some feedback here.
I already asked that the OS is changed to Linux... I first thought on a dual-boot system, but as I read and think about it, I think that this should be mainly a Linux (Bio-Linux?) system, with a Windows VM if needed. I cannot think on any bioinformatic program that will work on Windows but not on Linux... we are still mostly working within Windows (with Linux VM), but I guess that we should make a final change over Linux now.
Thanks in advance!
Base Unit HP Z840 Workstation
Packaging HP Single Unit Packaging
Chassis HP Z840 1125W (1450W/200V) 90% Eff Chass
Operating System 10*Pro 64 downgrade to Win7 Pro 64 *
Add-On Selection Operating System Load to PCIe
Recovery Media Windows 7 Pro 64-bit OS DVD+DRDVD
Processor Intel Xeon E5-2630v3 2.4 1866 8C 1stCPU
Processor 2 Intel Xeon E5-2630v3 2.4 1866 8C 2ndCPU
System Memory 128GB DDR4-2133 (16x8GB) 2CPU RegRAM
Graphics Card NVIDIA NVS 310 1GB 1st GFX
Internal Storage 01 HP Z Turbo Drive 256GB PCIe 1st SSD
Internal Storage 01 4TB 7200 RPM SATA 1st HDD
Internal Storage 02 4TB 7200 RPM SATA 2nd HDD
Internal Storage 03 4TB 7200 RPM SATA 3rd HDD
Internal Storage 04 4TB 7200 RPM SATA 4th HDD
Internal Storage 05 4TB 7200 RPM SATA 5th HDD
Optical Device 1 9.5mm Slim SuperMulti DVDRW 1st ODD
Media Card Reader HP 15-In-1 Media Card Reader
Warranty HP 3/3/3 Warranty
Country Kit HP Z840 Country Kit
Add-On Selection HP Dual Processor Air Cooling Kit
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