Hi everyone, I am a master student doing computational chemistry. Our lab recently built a workstation with the follwoing specs:
CPU: 3950x
Mobo: ASUS Pro WS X570-ACE
RAM: G.SKILL F4-3600C16D-16GVKC (2x8G)
Boot NVMe: Sabrent 1TB Rocket NVMe 4.0
GPU: ASUS 2080ti Turbo
(Also various HDD for data storage)
OS: Ubuntu 19.10
We are currently running a lot (millions) of small jobs and trying to take advantage of the large number of cores/threads on the 3950x, but we found that if we run more than 5 jobs at the same time, we will run out of RAM. Although we have swap spaces on the PCIe 4.0 drive, we still want to process our data as fast as possible. We plan to put more RAM on the machine, but we don't want to limit ourselves to 32GB by simply adding another 2x8G (since that will still not allow us to fully utilize all 16c/32t), therefore we are wondering if adding 2x16G would work well. If so, is there a specific kit that we should get?
TLDR: We have 16GB of RAM now, we want to add another 32GB to the machine, is this a good ideal?
Thanks in advance!