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FEA computing cluster?

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FEA computing cluster?

FEA computing cluster?

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My office is in the process of upgrading to new engineering workstations and the old workstations will be recycled for another purpose. We have 4-5 workstations that are only a few years old, so I was thinking of converting them into a cluster for FEA work.

Has anyone ever done this before? Is it worth the time to setup?
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RE: FEA computing cluster?

Might be easier to spend $2K on a 1U small box quad-core server with 8-16G of memory and use that for your FEA stuff. No graphics card, just compute power. Add a second processor if you have high CPU usage.
 

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