You do not invalidate your warranty with Dell by placing 1080TI cards in their workstations. You just don't inherit the Dell warranty onto the 1080TI cards.
> On Aug 8, 2018, at 1:48 PM, David Cerutti <dscerutti.gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Agreed. While GTX-1080Ti has long been the price point for simulations,
> Dell's going to bite you back if you start doing things to their machines.
> The contract that locks you into Dell is probably built on incentives like
> discounts and a deluxe warranty, which you will be forfeiting if you change
> the hardware (or OS). I'd talk to your acquisitions people (start with
> your department administrator, ask him or her who to speak to, and go from
> there). See If you can get a special dispensation and start constructing
> your own machine. Gaming systems companies will build you a desktop with
> dual GTX-1080Ti cards no problem, but they may be politically impossible
> for your acquisitions department to do business with.
>
> Dave
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 1:23 PM James Kress <jimkress_58.kressworks.org>
> wrote:
>
>> "buy a couple of 1080TIs on Amazon and put those in in its place"
>>
>> Be careful. Dell will probably not support these cards and their
>> implementation. You should contact Dell and get clarification of how
>> adding
>> these cards will affect your warranty and service contracts.
>>
>> Jim Kress
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Ross Walker <ross.rosswalker.co.uk>
>> Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2018 12:55 PM
>> To: AMBER Mailing List <amber.ambermd.org>
>> Subject: Re: [AMBER] Amber18 on NVIDIA Quadro Cards
>>
>> Hi Mish,
>>
>> Amber will run fine on those Quadro card. A P4000 will be about halfway
>> between a GTX1070 and a GTX1060 in terms of speed. So not great considering
>> what they cost. I'd guesstimate about 300 ns/day for DHFR NVE 4fs on a
>> P4000
>> - so about half the speed, maybe a little less of a P6000 / 1080TI.
>>
>> If your IT department are forcing you to buy Dell then the best option is
>> to
>> buy it with the cheapest graphics card you can, throw that out when it
>> arrives, buy a couple of 1080TIs on Amazon and put those in in it's place.
>> Just make sure the power supply is beefy enough and there are enough open
>> PCIe X16 slots in the machine.
>>
>> All the best
>> Ross
>>
>>> On Aug 8, 2018, at 11:51 AM, mish <smncbr.gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Dear all
>>>
>>> Just in case some is using NVIDIA Quadro P2000/P4000 cards, I want to
>>> ask if pmemd.cuda can run on NVIDIA Quadro P2000/P4000(8GB, 4DP (7X20T)
>> cards?
>>> If yes, how slow these can be compared to Quadro P6000 (~ 600 ns/day
>>> on ~23K atoms)?
>>>
>>> We are bound to buy a machine from DELL only, and they can not offer a
>>> workstation with GeForce cards as of now.
>>>
>>> In general, which Quadro can be a reasonable choice for Amber18 in
>>> this
>>> GTX-1080 budget?
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Mish
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