RE: Re: Re: 64 bit cpu and Mathematica on windows.
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- Subject: [mg52253] RE: [mg52234] Re: [mg52223] Re: [mg52218] 64 bit cpu and Mathematica on windows.
- From: "Melko, Mike" <Mike.Melko at northern.edu>
- Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 02:20:25 -0500 (EST)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Another note: The page linked to below, namely http://www.emachines.com/products/products.html?prod=eMachines_T3256 Is for a PC with an Athlon XP processor, which, I'm pretty sure, is 32-it. Another bit of confusion might come from the so-called "AMD Athlon 64". If I'm not mistaken, this is a 32-bit CPU that supports AMD's instruction set for 64-bit applications. So, for example, you could run 64-bit (and 32-bit) Mathematica on it, but it would be slower than on an Opteron, which is AMD's REAL 64-bit CPU. I've been shopping around a little , and this this the settup I currently favor (but with more RAM!): http://www.micronux.com/catalog/product.php?products_id=168 Properly configured, this would be about $1,500. Mike Melko -----Original Message----- From: Ian Roberts [mailto:mathgroup at quantica.com.au] To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net Subject: [mg52253] [mg52234] Re: [mg52223] Re: [mg52218] 64 bit cpu and Mathematica on windows. WRI advertise Mathematica 5 for AMD64, see: http://www.wolfram.com/news/amd64.html. I presume that this is the "Linux (64 bit optimized) " version . They have checked compatibility with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 which supports 64 bit technology, hopefully this means that its OK on SUSE's desktop version; see http://www.suse.com/us/private/products/suse_linux/prof/64bit.html. So it looks as though a cheap 64 bit Mathematica is possible. Has anybody done it? Ian Quantica P/L DrBob wrote: >To see any improvement, I think you'll need a 64-bit version of Windows (not yet released) and a 64-bit version of Mathematica (also not released). > >Bobby > >On Sun, 14 Nov 2004 20:15:24 -0500 (EST), sean kim <sean_incali at yahoo.com> wrote: > > > >>http://www.wolfram.com/news/sgiirix.html >> >>has info on sgi machines >> >>will Mathematica run faster on a windows machine with 64 bit cpu? >> >>like.. this one. >> >>http://www.emachines.com/products/products.html?prod=eMachines_T3256 >> >>that's only 600 bucks! >> >>or dooes wri need to release a new version of Mathematica that is optimized >>for 64bit windows cpu? >> >>thanks for any insights. >> >> >> >> >> >> > > > > >