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Re: Computing Speed [message #11017 is a reply to message #10839]

Thu, 19 February 1998 00:00

krieger
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Registered: June 1997

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In article <34EA0198.C58@ktaadn.com>, Matthew Hanson <matt@ktaadn.com> wrote:
> Greeting all,
> I have been running IDL on a Sparc Station20 for several months. A
> couple months ago we got an Ultra 1 (167MHz, 128MB RAM) and i used that
> for a while for our IDL apps. Now i have a Pentium II (300MHz) with 128
> MB of RAM.
> Running some computationally intensive surface fitting and FFT's on both
> machines i have found, quite surprisingly, that the PC (running NT) is
> whuppin the SUN Station (which costs roughly 6 times the PC).

Well, you should compare roughly equal processor generations. Comparing IDL on
my Ultra1 167 (256MB RAM) at work with my P166 (64MB, WinNT4.0) at home, the
SUN is about twice as fast than the PC doing IDL builtin FFT of 1024x1024
images.

The decision between workstation and PC depends on much more factors than
processor power alone. If you go for a PC, I would recommend using Linux.
As far as I know, you can get IDL for Linux with floating net license
in contrast to WinNT with CPU license only. Much less administration hassle
and now one can steal your dongles :-)

Cheers

Karl

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		Computing Speed By: Matthew Hanson on Tue, 17 February 1998 00:00
		Re: Computing Speed By: J.D. Smith on Mon, 23 February 1998 00:00
		Re: Computing Speed By: J.D. Smith on Mon, 23 February 1998 00:00
		Re: Computing Speed By: krieger on Thu, 19 February 1998 00:00
		Re: Computing Speed By: Joe[1] on Thu, 19 February 1998 00:00
		Re: Computing Speed By: David Kastrup on Thu, 19 February 1998 00:00
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		Re: Computing Speed By: steinhh on Thu, 19 February 1998 00:00
		Re: Computing Speed By: Mirko Loehmann on Thu, 19 February 1998 00:00
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