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Technology Stocks : Rambus (RMBS) - Eagle or Penguin
RMBS 88.13+1.0%Nov 21 9:30 AM EST
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To: richard surckla who wrote (36811)1/30/2000 6:04:00 AM
From: Alex Fleming  Read Replies (2) of 93625
 
Richard-

As far as test data on the web with reference to dual processor performance, the most commonly used application is 3D Studio Max from Autodesk, the makers of Autocad. The reason is that it is one of the few applications that supports dual processors well. Perhaps you could checkout their site. They have had good technical documentation on this in the past.

My company is in the architecture/3D Viz business and we are big users of Max and almost all of Autodesks products. Even though all our machines are multiprocessor boxes, our most computationally expensive application is single threaded and therefore does not run any better on a dual CPU machine. We use this software to do accurate lighting simulations within 3D models with very large datasets. It can take several days of computation to reach a solution. It is here that memory bandwidth of the 840s with Rambus makes a big difference- more than the change in clock speed would suggest.

There is lot of data out there to support that this guy is blowing smoke. The only situation where he has a point is if he is using an application like 3D Studio Max and where the extra memory and CPU can work together. One or two applications where there is an advantage cannot be used to conclude that this advantage available under all circumstances.

Alex
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