Re: Re: hardware for Mathematica 6.0
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- Subject: [mg80071] Re: [mg80029] Re: hardware for Mathematica 6.0
- From: stelzer at embl.de
- Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2007 07:08:42 -0400 (EDT)
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Hi, I run Mathematica on a Dell Latitude D810 (32bit) and on a double Quadcore (i.e. 8 kernels, 64bit) desktop with 16 GBytes of Ram, the latest Nvidia graphics card and 1TByte in a Raid. Both systems run Vista (32 resp 64bit). I am actually stunned by the performance of the desktop system since it really takes full advantage of the eight cores. I am using them for data/image processing and the speed improvement is very close to a factor 7.5. For some operations I found the desktop to be about 25x faster than my laptop, which I still regard as quite good. So in my experience the number of cores might be well worth it!! E. Stelzer EMBL-Heidelberg