Re: Mathematica 8
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg114092] Re: Mathematica 8
- From: Curtis Osterhoudt <cfo at lanl.gov>
- Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 06:00:11 -0500 (EST)
Hi, Jake,
I don't mind at all.
I think I have 4 GiB of RAM in my Lenovo laptops, dual core, but I don't have a 64 bit processor (only 32). I suspect, though (only suspect!) that things will run very well in your setup, as long as you don't have to do REALLY memory-intensive calculations.
Best wishes!
Curtis
On Monday, November 22, 2010 14:53:17 J and B wrote:
> Thanks Curtis for the answering my question. One more if you don't mind.
> With my IBM I only had 512 ram, in my Lenovo I have 4 gig, and duel core, 64
> bit. With this be ok with a lap top using the new Mathematica?
>
> Thanks once again and Happy Thanksgiving
> Jake
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Curtis Osterhoudt [mailto:cfo at lanl.gov]
> Sent: Monday, November 22, 2010 1:11 PM
> To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
> Cc: J and B
> Subject: Re: [mg114047] Re: Mathematica 8
>
> No troubles.
>
> The laptop is a Lenovo ThinkPad T500 (they're no longer produced, having
> been superceded by the T510). They have an integrated Intel graphics chip,
> and also a discrete ATI graphics card (one can force switches between these
> in the BIOS, and also linux and Windows allow switching within the OS,
> though I haven't tried that).
>
> They're good laptops; I've run pretty intensive things on them both in
> Windows XP and linux, though I tend to boot only into linux, and run
> Mathematica 8 (and 7 and 6) on the linux partitions, so I'm not 100% sure
> how M version 8 will behave in Windows (I do have a home-built desktop
> running Windows 7 and Mathematica 8 works fine).
>
> Hope that helps a little,
> Curtis
>
>
>
> On Monday, November 22, 2010 11:04:54 J and B wrote:
> > Sorry to butt in, but I noticed that you have an Lenovo laptop. I am
> > getting one, but I don't know what I need in order to run M8 on it. I
> > will be using going version of windows on it.
> >
> > I had to get another desktop 3 years ago, an Lenovo just to run version 7.
> > My IBM desktop could not handle M7.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Curtis F. Osterhoudt [mailto:cfo at lanl.gov]
> > Sent: Monday, November 22, 2010 7:36 AM
> > To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
> > Subject: [mg114047] Re: Mathematica 8
> >
> > Interesting. I decided to play with this too (on a Lenovo notebook
> > with two cores, running a 32-bit linux). If I choose to have
> > Mathematica fire up another kernel "as needed", things run fine.
> > However, if I ask it to start two kernels "on startup", the Benchmark
> > runs for a long time (I haven't let it complete yet) and pegs both
> > cores at around 100%. It also prints no output. Perhaps a bug?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > >> Could you elaborate a bit on this? I thought to make use of more
> > >> than one core I needed to use commands like Parallelize. Are
> > >> modifying the benchmarking code?
> > >
> > > No ... I just selected to launch parallel kernels on startup of
> > > Mathematica 8 in Mathematica Preferences.
> > >
> > > Then I just ran MathematicaMark8 with no code modifications to see
> > > what happened.
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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