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[Xavier Gonze <gonze@pcpm.ucl.ac.be>]

pierre.boulenc@isen.fr wrote:
> Dear ABINITers,
>
> We plan to buy a new machine (not a cluster) to run abinis on big supercells.
> We have several questions to optimize our choice:
>
> - does abinis work with dual processors and does it benefit?
>
> - does abinis work with 64 bit processors? is it worth using such processors?
>
> - which processor do you recommend?
>
> - which is the best operating system to run abinis (with best performance) ?
>
> - do you have other important issues to recommend?
>
> Thank you for your help!
>
> Pierre Boulenc

Just in case, we have made comparison between different 64 bits processors,
and at present, the Opteron seem to be the best buy. ABINIT pass the
tests successfully on this platform.
Xavier