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To: Ali Chen who wrote (227339)	3/3/2007 4:05:33 PM
From: pgerassi	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

Dear Ali: FYI, its not That's why I declare once again: for bulk computing, SPECbase = YES!, SPECrate = NO. Its SPECxxx_rate2006, not SPECxxx_base2006! If you want performance in single apps, then use Solaris and the Sun Studio C compiler. It defeats even Intel C on SPECfp and SPECint because it can split the load amongst all the cores of a system. And that is peak, not base. Windows doesn't work well because its uses a message based scheduler which from time to time can simply stop functioning for a while, while it sorts itself out. YOu can choose a scheduler for Linux. There's the standard round robin scheduler, a real time scheduler and a high load priority scheduler. Its your choice as to which one to use. And don't give me that ISE doesn't run Linux. Because here it is: xilinx.com Notice that it runs on Red Hat. It also runs on Solaris. And these tools are memory hogs. The more the better. And why SPECfp_rate2006 scores are a better choice. Because it stresses the memory system unlike SPECint_base2006. So the 128GB you get on a HP 585DL box really does some good. Populate it with 4 Opteron 856s or the G2 with 4 8220s and run Solaris. You'll get the top SPECfp_2000 scores beating Xeon 5160 by 15%. And the top SPECfp_rate scores beating twin Xeon 5160s by 107%. And MATLAB is available for Linux too: mathworks.com So get off your Windows and SPECxxx_base dreamland and look in the real world. BTW, you can run LInux on Xilinx FPGA eval boards: splish.ee.byu.edu Pete

To: Ali Chen who wrote (227339)	3/3/2007 4:37:37 PM
From: muzosi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

There is a misconception. maybe on your part. I also frequently, very frequently find myself with open Xilinx ISE, ModelSim, iMpact, PowerPCB, Internet Explorer, Acrobat with several documents, maybe some Word and/or Excel, and Outlook. But I rarely RUN them simultaneously. i don't know about you but my smallest fpga design takes nearly 4 hours in ise. i certainly can't afford to wait for it to finish to look-at my next client's item with ncverilog or matlab. in the mean time, the background indexer is working on the new pdfs i downloaded, outlook is fetching & filtering mail, ... you get the idea. even for a non-techy user, anti-virus, email, audio player& indexers are a very good reason for multi-core, multi-threaded environments. Then I have to run back-annotated simulations, to make sure that my timing didn't fall apart there is certainly something wrong the way you're doing things.