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Re: Re: Running Mathematica under Linux Red Hat

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  • Subject: [mg21154] Re: [mg20952] Re: Running Mathematica under Linux Red Hat
  • From: Bojan Bistrovic <bojanb at physics.odu.edu>
  • Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 01:22:19 -0500 (EST)
  • Organization: Old Dominion Universityaruba
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Rob Smith wrote:
> 
> I too am now running under Red Hat 6.0 and, wow, what a huge difference.
> I do alot of graphics and manipulations with fairly large lists.  Under
> Windoze I would routinely reboot every hour or so also--I spent almost as
> much time saving and rebooting (and recalculating lost work) as I did
> doing my work in the first place!  I'm now running on a 450 MHz P-III
> with 256 MB RAM and haven't crashed Mathematica a single time.  And if
> anybody wants more incentive to switch to Linux check this out:  I boot
> Win95 and Red Hat 6.0 off the same machine and 1) my CPU runs 8 degrees
> Celsius cooler under Linux and 2) my 56K modem connection is 10 times
> faster under Linux.  No, I am not kidding.
> 
> Rob Smith
> Department of Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry
> Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
> Baltimore, MD 21205

I had a similar (dual boot) setting and I did some testing as well.
Under Linux calculations appear to be cca. 10-15% faster. I'm not just
talking about the "processor time"; I'd leave long calculation on the
computer and Linux would do it in about 13 hours while Windows95
required ove 14 hrs. If that's not enough, what is?
 
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Bojan Bistrovic,                       bojanb at physics.odu.edu  
Old Dominion University, Physics Department,      Norfolk, VA
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