i think its worth it. A computer like that will last 8-10 years between computing horsepower and quality of components. So he's amortizing $500-700/year. I did something similar in 2018 and that computer would still be used for my trading. I just reupped because i needed a second computer for work flow.
Just curious what needs so much computing power. Most modern applications don't utilise all cores. Also a very well built and cooled overclocked system can go a long way
Some old articles: https://www.hpcwire.com/2018/09/26/hpc-and-ai-at-the-forefront-of-finance/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomgro...ixed-income-risk-at-jpmorgan/?sh=660c43451001 https://www.hpcwire.com/2008/02/29/supercomputers_for_finance_a_new_challenge-1/
Running optimizations. I have a Lenovo ThinkStation P7 with dual Xeon. Some optimizations take 4-5 hours.
Absolutely agree. I built my Win-10 Pro system back in April/2016 using all high quality components at a cost just shy of $3k. Originally built it to edit videos using Adobe's suite of products. I don't edit videos anymore, just use it for trading. Next month will be eight years and it's still going strong. I did have to replace the display panel last summer but, other than that, no issues. Money well spent.
Thats just going to be used for Boot. Thats why my Storage for the workloads are SN840 6.4tb SSDs They have PLP so you can disable fsync() for max write IOPS and will do 3 drive writes per day. https://www.westerndigital.com/prod...rives/ultrastar-dc-sn840-nvme-ssd?sku=0TS1878 For ultralow latency the Optanes get leveraged, those work on phase change so you can directly write on top of data just like magnetic DASD. They can be slammed with random writes all day long.
ECC AVX-512 High memory bandwidth due to 8 channels you get 307 Gbyte/sec which is critical for HPC And a few other things. even top shelf i9 could only do about 89 Gbyte/sec. Xeon gets you a bit over 3x the performance to feed the beast. In the early 90s a Cray C916 could do 245 Gbyte/sec memory bandwidth and those systems cost millions and required lots kilowatts to run. Amazing that you can build a machine today that destroys that in performance and consumes a few hundred watts.