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On 11/7/06, Alan McKinnon <alan@××××××××××××××××.za> wrote: |
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> You seem to know enough about these matters already to make a sane |
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> judgement, so you probably already know that the real answer to your |
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> question is "it depends". |
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> Here's what I would do: pop along to your local store, preferably not |
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> one of the big chains, find the sanest sales guy with a clue and |
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> explain your problem. Don't listen to his recommendations, just ask if |
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> you can test his demo machines with the actual app in question. If it's |
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> an owner run store he probably say yes. Then test the thing for real |
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> and measure progress after 30 minutes or so. Buy the best performer. |
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> This will take a while, but at least you'll know for real which one |
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> suits your needs best |
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> alan |
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Thanks Alan. |
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The problem with running the neural network app is that it's a huge |
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install under Windows. It requires Internet access as it has a |
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hardware key that has to be validated against the specific machine. |
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Probably takes 1 hour just to set up. Then, once it's set up it takes |
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maybe 15 minutes to run a single solution on my older Athlon XP 1600+. |
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With that as background I'm sure you can understand that I'm not |
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anxious to do it more than once or twice. |
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What I was hoping to do was find some basic way of comparing the |
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BogoMIPS on my old Athlon XP machine with BogoMIPS on some new |
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machines at the dealer. They haven't had any problems in the past with |
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me bringing in a LiveCD and booting Linux. If I could do this then I |
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might estimate that the new machine will run the same speed or will |
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run 3X the speed when doing these neural network jobs? |
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Here's some info on the machines in my house today: |
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1) A 3GHz P4HT machine we use as a MythTV backend server and desktop machine: |
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processor : 0 |
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vendor_id : GenuineIntel |
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cpu family : 15 |
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model : 3 |
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model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz |
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stepping : 3 |
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cpu MHz : 2995.346 |
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cache size : 1024 KB |
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<SNIP> |
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bogomips : 5996.11 |
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processor : 1 |
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vendor_id : GenuineIntel |
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cpu family : 15 |
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model : 3 |
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model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz |
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stepping : 3 |
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cpu MHz : 2995.346 |
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cache size : 1024 KB |
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<SNIP> |
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bogomips : 5990.25 |
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2) My son's AMD Compaq low cost machine: |
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processor : 0 |
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vendor_id : AuthenticAMD |
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cpu family : 15 |
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model : 47 |
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model name : AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 3200+ |
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stepping : 2 |
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cpu MHz : 1803.767 |
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cache size : 256 KB |
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<SNIP> |
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bogomips : 3611.84 |
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3) 1 of 2 Pundit-R's used as Myth frontend machines: |
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processor : 0 |
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vendor_id : GenuineIntel |
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cpu family : 15 |
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model : 3 |
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model name : Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.26GHz |
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stepping : 4 |
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cpu MHz : 2261.847 |
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cache size : 256 KB |
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<SNIP> |
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bogomips : 4526.57 |
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4) My AMD64 Gentoo machine is use daily: |
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processor : 0 |
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vendor_id : AuthenticAMD |
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cpu family : 15 |
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model : 47 |
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model name : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ |
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stepping : 0 |
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cpu MHz : 1809.286 |
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cache size : 512 KB |
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<SNIP> |
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bogomips : 3619.63 |
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5) The current Athlon XP Windows machine is busy running Trading |
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Solutions but when in Linux I *think* it has a BogoMIPS spec around |
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2800. No way to verify that right now. |
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It's pretty boring but it seems that you can sort of double the CPU |
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MHz spec and come pretty close to the BogoMIPS numbers. However that |
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doesn't take cache size into account so maybe BogoMIPS isn't even the |
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right thing to be looking at. |
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At the root of it all my questions are: |
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1) How representative are BogoMIPS in determining how fast a machine |
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will eventually be on compute bound apps? |
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2) Are there any good listings of BogoMIPS on different processor |
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types and speeds? (This is what I really want....) |
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3) Do BogoMIPS include FPU measurements in case that is important for my app? |
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4) How well do BogoMIPS translate to the same machine when it runs Win XP? |
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Anyway, thanks very much for your answers. I appreciate the help even |
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if it isn't primarily about running Gentoo. I suspect there are others |
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out there that have to dual boot. Maybe this will help someone in the |
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future with similar questions. |
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Cheers, |
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Mark |
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