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Re: Best,Fastest platform for IDL 5.2 (NT or UNIX) [message #17260 is a reply to message #17090]

Fri, 17 September 1999 00:00

wmc
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Richard Tyc <richt@sbrc.umanitoba.ca> wrote:
> To add to the another similar post, I would like to know from the
> experts what system they would buy if they had $10K - $30K (speed being
> an important factor) ?

My recollection is that about 1 year to 6 months ago someone organised a
set of speed tests in IDL for a variety of platforms and published the
results on the web. Someone else will surely know the real reference or
perhaps dejanews will tell you.

I particularly liked the survey because our alpha-600 won in the cpu section ;-)

However, in terms of performance/price, I recall that pentium-type objects
came out on top.

-W.

[just looked it up: see ftp://iras2.tn.cornell.edu/pub/jdsmith/ for the results,
or search deja for "Speed Survey". It was in apr 1998 - perhaps time for a
re-run?]

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		Best,Fastest platform for IDL 5.2 (NT or UNIX) By: Richard Tyc on Mon, 13 September 1999 00:00
		Re: Best,Fastest platform for IDL 5.2 (NT or UNIX) By: Patrick V. Ford on Wed, 15 September 1999 00:00
		Re: Best,Fastest platform for IDL 5.2 (NT or UNIX) By: Olivier ARCHER on Tue, 14 September 1999 00:00
		Re: Best,Fastest platform for IDL 5.2 (NT or UNIX) By: Richard Tyc on Tue, 21 September 1999 00:00
		Re: Best,Fastest platform for IDL 5.2 (NT or UNIX) By: edors on Tue, 21 September 1999 00:00
		Re: Best,Fastest platform for IDL 5.2 (NT or UNIX) By: Patrick Ford on Fri, 17 September 1999 00:00
		Re: Best,Fastest platform for IDL 5.2 (NT or UNIX) By: Michael Werger on Fri, 17 September 1999 00:00
		Re: Best,Fastest platform for IDL 5.2 (NT or UNIX) By: wmc on Fri, 17 September 1999 00:00

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