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Former Member
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Putting together a new core i7 based machine. Most of the time it will be crunching. Just wondered if the choice of operating system would make it better for crunching? I can do internet stuff on any platform so i really don't care. I am looking at either;
XP (sp3) Vista (32bit) Ubuntu linux Any thoughts? |
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Sekerob
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Points/Credit or Flops throughput? Difficult to say as not all sciences run uniformly equal under a particular operating system. More important is RAM / speed and CPU / speed and the L1/L2 cache size. The bigger the better is the broad line indication.
----------------------------------------Also, it's subjective. How many services you allow to run on the side. According BOINCview my Vista 32 Quad has a CPU efficiency of 99.7% Here comes Vista SP2. Think it's out next week. SP1 made a whole big difference and gamers report it's the better platform over XP.
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I'd say an operating system that when booted uses as little memory as possible and puts each core in a 2 instruction loop forever
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What about XP 32 bit vs xp 64 bit? Does the agent support 64 bit or will it just emulate 32 bit?
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Former Member
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WinXP 64 has horrible driver support ... you likely will have problems right out of the gate with your i7. I just ordered my parts to build an i7 and I am going to use Vista64 until win7 arrives (6 gb ram).
Is this better than linux for crunching ... I don't know but if you are going with the win world then Vista 64 is probably your best bet for i7 if you have more than 3 gb ram. Steve |
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The only thing I can't get to work on xp 64 is to get java run time enviroment to install. Everything else works fine with it. I have triple boot setup: XP 32, XP 64, and Vista 64 home. I don't know which of these would be the best to run bonic in since my drivers work for all of them.
I have a I7 920, Gigabyte MB, 3gb DDR3, and a 9800GT |
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With those specs I would stick with WinXP 32
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What about XP 32 bit vs xp 64 bit? Does the agent support 64 bit or will it just emulate 32 bit? All WCG projects are 32 bit only. As a consequence most projects run as fast on 64 bit as on 32 bit. The exception is HCC, which primarily uses integer calculations and as a consequence actually runs faster on 64 bit (even though it runs in 32 bit emulation) . [Edit 2 times, last edit by Former Member at Mar 8, 2009 7:02:40 AM] |
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