Due to the current gap in continued funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), the NSF Unidata Program Center has temporarily paused most operations. See NSF Unidata Pause in Most Operations for details.
Due to the current gap in continued funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), the NSF Unidata Program Center has temporarily paused most operations. See NSF Unidata Pause in Most Operations for details.
I would be that the Athlon would work just fine with LDM/McIDAS/GEMPAK as long as the OS support was there. I know a lot of Solaris Intel folks are using the single CPU Athlons with great success (not Unidata stuff, just in general). The PC side of our company is Dell only, so I'll have to see about the Athlon. Obviously this might be something we'd build ourselves if we went that way. Robert -----Original Message----- Cc: Robert Mullenax; ldm-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: 9/20/01 12:13 PM On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, David Wojtowicz wrote: > I do not want to start a Intel vs AMD war here, but from our testing > with many of our numerical codes we conclude the following. > > An AMD Athlon 1.3 Ghz with conventional PC133 SDRAM memory > is about 10% faster than a Pentium IV 1.7 Ghz with RDRAM on existing code. > Adding DDR RAM to the Athlon configuration can improve things further. Has anyone tried a 2 GHZ Pentium yet? I will be making a call sometime in the next few months whether or not to get a 2.0 GHZ P4 or a 1.3 GHZ Athlon. I'll be using my machine as a web server and making thousands of graphics every day. Will it matter? Will the AMD chip run WXP, Gempak, McIDAS and other programs just fine? I used to be as hardcore about Intel as I am about Linux, but in the last year, that has been blown out the window! Does the floating point improve with the P4 2 GHZ vs. 1.7 GHZ? ************************************************************************ ******* Gilbert Sebenste ******** Internet: gilbert@xxxxxxx (My opinions only!) ****** Staff Meteorologist, Northern Illinois University **** E-mail: sebenste@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx *** web: http://weather.admin.niu.edu ** Work phone: 815-753-5492 * ************************************************************************ *******
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