Re: $10K Mathematica Machine
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- Subject: [mg76935] Re: $10K Mathematica Machine
- From: Mark Westwood <markc.westwood at gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 05:23:46 -0400 (EDT)
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Scott I will happily sell you the excellent computer on my desk for $10K but if that isn't an attractive enough offer I would look at these factors: a) Go 64 bit b) processor speed -- the faster the better; c) RAM -- more is better; d) there is no d in my list. So, just buy the fastest 64-bit processor you can find, and stuff as much memory into the can as you have dollars left to spend. Salvage a keyboard, mouse and CRT from an old PC and away you go. Don't forget a Mathematica licence. I haven't done any comparison of Mathematica on different O/S's, though others have and you might like to consult their data, do a search in this group for performance comparisons. I'd need some convincing that multi-core processors are a necessity or even a nice-to-have. The big question would be 'does Mathematica take advantage of multi-cores for the kinds of computation that I am doing ?' And I'd want to see some data on this. Regards Mark Westwood On 29 May, 10:10, Scott <sguth... at gmail.com> wrote: > I have $10K to spend on a computer dedicated to running Mathematica. > I mostly do long number theory computations with lots of very big > integers and rational numbers. I seek to do bigger ones faster. > > Your suggestions as to the nature of the best computer configuration > for this purpose are solicited and greatly appreciated. > > Cheers, Scott
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