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Multi-processor code or single processor ?
Our company is busy looking at going for one of two options:
* Intel single core Pentium 4 @ 3.60 GHz * Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2.40GHz for an industrial application. On paper the latter sounds like the fastest, but I'm not so sure. Our application is the only one that the user needs to interact with and its performs tens to hundreds of millions of (mostly numerical) calculations per second. I'm not too confident I understand how the thread scheduler will work to give us the optimum performance. My feelings: * The dual core sounds good but its probably going to be good for consumer desktops where you run lots of small-ish application like internet browser, word processor and listen to music * The single core will allow our application to hog the processor more effectively. If we set the the process priority very high, I get the impression this is the way to go. Is my understanding correct? For the application described, should I recommend a dual core or a single core? Thanks, Alain |
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Multi-processor code or single processor ?
"Alain Dekker" wrote in message ... Our company is busy looking at going for one of two options: * Intel single core Pentium 4 @ 3.60 GHz * Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2.40GHz for an industrial application. On paper the latter sounds like the fastest, but I'm not so sure. Our application is the only one that the user needs to interact with and its performs tens to hundreds of millions of (mostly numerical) calculations per second. I'm not too confident I understand how the thread scheduler will work to give us the optimum performance. My feelings: * The dual core sounds good but its probably going to be good for consumer desktops where you run lots of small-ish application like internet browser, word processor and listen to music * The single core will allow our application to hog the processor more effectively. If we set the the process priority very high, I get the impression this is the way to go. Is my understanding correct? For the application described, should I recommend a dual core or a single core? Alain I would go with the Intel single core Pentium 4 @ 3.60 GHz for your usage as you describe. My opinion is that it will do the job more efficiently that that new Intel Core 2 Duo Just my opinion. I am using an P4 Intel 3.60 Xeon and it outperforms according to my benchmarks the Intel Core 2 Duo -- Peter Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged. This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. http://www.microsoft.com/protect |
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