Hardware for Mathematica 6.0
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- Subject: [mg80158] Hardware for Mathematica 6.0
- From: "Ernst H.K. Stelzer" <stelzer at embl.de>
- Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 06:55:02 -0400 (EDT)
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Hi, I was asked to be a little bit more specific following my email on hardware. First of all, this has been discussed several times and I am well aware of these discussions. In my lab at EMBL in Heidelberg we use various different pieces of equipment from different vendors. Second, I am still looking for the official Wolfram documentation on how to implement Multiprocessor support. I followed a previous posting to this group, which works for Mathematica 5.2 and 6. It works on a dual Quadcore (2x4=8 cores and an almost 7.5x improvement in speed) and on a dual core (2x improvement in speed). It works in both Vista 32bit and Vista 64bit. In both cases it shows nicely in Windows Task Manager Performance Indicator. I have not tested multi-CPU extensively but it does help with our image processing. As I said above, I am still looking for the official documentation and an indication of the scope of its usefulness. Thirdly, I also use the Personal Grid Edition (currently still 5.2) but this is a different issue. Fourth, the desktop I was referring to is based on XEON E5345 @ 2.33GHz, 16GByte RAM, 64bit Vista, (still, I am waiting for updates to two packages!!) 64bit Mathematica (5.2). The laptop runs Mathematica 6.0 and the other dual core uses 6.0 in a 32bit environment. In summary, only excellent experience until now. E. Stelzer