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Date:      23 Oct 2000 15:22:56 -0400
From:      Allan Strand <stranda@cofc.edu>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Choosing a fairly high-speed compute server
Message-ID:  <867l6zween.fsf@linum.cofc.edu>

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Hi all,

I have written a pretty complex simulation in c++.  It seems to work
pretty well at the moment, but it is too slow for my liking.  I am in
the process of optimizing the code, but there is a point where that
will not help speed things up.  The program does lots of memory
allocation/deallocation and that seems to be it's speed downfall.

So, I need a new box and I wanted to solicit input on some choices.
First of all, I really plan to have this box dedicated to
computational problems only, so I don't really need soundboards, fancy
monitors, modems, etc.  All that is required is a NIC, >= 256M ram,
and high cpu+cache+bus performance.  Of course I want to minimize
price.  The program could probably be threaded at a gross level, so
SMP might ultimately be an option (even if not threaded?), but I was
thinking of starting with a 800Mhz PIII machine.  Does this rambling
make sense?  Can FBSD utilize the PIII features?  Is there a
hi-performance computation in FBSD FAQ?

TIA

a.
-- 
Allan Strand


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