Re: Karl's Mathematica 8 benchmark results for current MacBook Air?
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- Subject: [mg124599] Re: Karl's Mathematica 8 benchmark results for current MacBook Air?
- From: Michael Stern <nycstern at gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 03:26:06 -0500 (EST)
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I have a relatively elderly Macbook Air, 2.13 GHz Core 2 Duo with 2Gb RAM. Modern ones are quicker. That said, I find it extremely useful with Mathematica 8, and I routinely have a MySQL server running on this system, feeding data to Mathematica. That would have required a proper server only a few years ago. Benchmark results below: Unterkofler: Version = 8.0 for Mac OS X x86 (64-bit) (February 23, 2011) Times = {14.9603,20.7724,16.6082,9.41704,21.1777,8.35498,0.001637,8.54945,21.3555, 35.4749,29.1722,18.8397,19.4489} Total Kernel Time = 224.133, Absolute Time = 136.0 Benchmark = 0.745911 , Benchmark_p = 1.22896, kernels = 2 Version = 8.0 for Mac OS X x86 (64-bit) (February 23, 2011) Times2 = {26.3729,26.9259,36.6277} Total Kernel Time2 = 89.9266, Absolute Time parallel = 57.76 Benchmark2 = 0.625987 , Benchmark parallel = 0.974648 Built-in: {"MachineName" -> "2-node homogeneous cluster", "System" -> "MacOSX-x86-64", "BenchmarkName" -> "MathematicaMark8", "FullVersionNumber" -> "8.0.1", "Date" -> "January 25, 2012", "BenchmarkResult" -> 0.359, "TotalTime" -> 231.142} Looks like I never upgraded this one to 8.04. Hope that helps, MS On Jan 25, 2012, at 7:07 AM, Murray Eisenberg wrote: > I'm still trying to decide how viable it would be to run Mathematica on > a MacBook Air (as a secondary machine when away from home). > > Can anybody provide benchmarks for version 8.0.4 on a _current_ model > MacBook Air from: > > (1) Karl Unterkofler's MMA 8.0 test notebook > https://homepages.fhv.at/ku/karl/mma.html > > (2) the built-in Mathematica benchmark. > > -- > Murray Eisenberg murray at math.umass.edu > Mathematics & Statistics Dept. > Lederle Graduate Research Tower phone 413 549-1020 (H) > University of Massachusetts 413 545-2859 (W) > 710 North Pleasant Street fax 413 545-1801 > Amherst, MA 01003-9305
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- Karl's Mathematica 8 benchmark results for current MacBook Air?
- From: Murray Eisenberg <murray@math.umass.edu>
- Karl's Mathematica 8 benchmark results for current MacBook Air?