Author: Robert Pawlak
Date: 17:06:01 02/20/03
Hi Everyone, I am on the verge of buying a new computer at work. However, I do quite a bit of heavy computation, and have a need to run modeling jobs that take days to complete. My current system gets a bit sluggish when I do this, and so I have been thinking about one of the following: Dual Xeon Dual Athlon MP 3 GHz P4 with HT OS: WinXP The software I run in the background is very integer intensive. The are times also when I run floating point intensive stuff as well. And of course, the models consume gobs of memory. So you see the similarities to your typical chess engine with large hash (at least for integer stuff). The application I am using will only run in a single thread. My concern is not so much about MIPS, but about whether the machine is still usable while my jobs are running in the background. Base on my limited understanding of hyperthreading, it looks like it might be an ok alternative. But I have no idea how well it will perform for my needs. I included it because it has the potential to be the best performer. The dual Xeon seems interesting to me as well, since it would give me four logical processors :-). I also think Intel might be my better choice because of the larger memory bandwidth. Does anyone have any practical experience they'd like to share on this topic? Thanks, Bob
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