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Computing Speed [message #10839]

Tue, 17 February 1998 00:00

Matthew Hanson
Messages: 11
Registered: October 1997

Junior Member

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).

(We also run a Atmospheric Fortran program - the PC runs this about 8
times faster than the UNIX)

What has been other people's experience running IDL on PC and UNIX based
machines? How about Macs? Fast, slow. . . ?

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Matthew Hanson

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Newton, MA 02159

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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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