Re: [MLUG] Anyone got a fast modern computer

[Jack Smith <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 14:16 -0500, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
> I have this multithreaded program written for Linux.  I would really 
> like to try it on one of those quad core 64 bit systems.  Really just 
> for timing tests.  I would expect it to take about 30 minutes.  Is 
> anyone willing to indulge me?  I would send you a tar file, and you 
> would do a simple "make; time ./the-program" and send me back the results.
> 
> Thanks, Stephen

I use a Core 2 Quad Q6600 with 8 GB RAM at work but unfortunately it is
running Windows XP x86_64 and the only thing I am _not_ allowed to do is
install a different OS. And naturally, I need Linux to do my work as
there is quite a bit of data analysis and programming involved and there
is simply no substitute for most of the stuff I'd do with a short bash
script. Yes, I know there are the gnuwin32 tools and cygwin and I've
tried them but I need a 64-bit environment to work correctly. I thus
have my trusty Debian installation on Virtualbox Open Source Edition. It
works well but the OSE version only supports one CPU so I'd be no help.

I do have a pair of dual-core 64-bit systems at home though running
Debian amd64. One is a socket 939 AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ (2.2 GHz/2x512
KB L2) desktop with 4 GB RAM and the other is a Core 2 Duo U7500 laptop
(1.067 GHz/2 MB unified L2) with 3 GB RAM. They are multi-core 64-bit
processors...would it still help even though they are not quad-core
units and the clock speeds are rather low by today's standards?

--Jack


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