Benchmark

[The_Evil_Machinist]

Ive been playing around with my cluster system and looking back at it, making a folding at home system for mastercam is plausable. But enabling CUDA for the system is even easier. I retract my earlier statement about cuda. It has gotten a lot easier to code for it. I want to try to write a patch for x4 so I can enable CUDA but I doubt it will work. Ill have to do that at kernel level. Oh well.

 

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The new "Beast" came yesterday.

28 seconds local, 41 seconds from the network.

 

 

[The_Evil_Machinist]

Wow, so it will do the sub minute times even without a cluster. Heres to the sub minute people!

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This thing is a monster

[Brian B 74]

Can you share the cost of your "monster"?

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$6,701.99

[The_Evil_Machinist]

Thats not that bad. For the specs you toasted earlier, I expected at least 9.

[Guest CNC Apps Guy 1]

 

Looks liek we're going to need a new benchmark file. Unfortunately a file that will adequately exeercise that beast woudl cripple about 75% of the machines in the benchmark.

[The_Evil_Machinist]

Someone put up a new file. I want to challenge murray on it. We both got the same times so this will be in a true battle! Murray, you in for a speed test challenge?

 

 

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Yea, you gonna use one computer??

[The_Evil_Machinist]

No Ill use 2. There is no way i can keep up with your beast. Ill use my siggy comp and my macbook pro in my cluster. I still dont think i can beat you. Winner gains control of the appreciation station!

 

 

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I was just joking about one computer LOL

 

I had a file that I was working on a few weeks ago that took 1 hr 45 min to process, so for sh!ts and giggles I opened it up and regened it in just a hair under 13 minutes

[The_Evil_Machinist]

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I had a file that I was working on a few weeks ago that took 1 hr 45 min to process, so for sh!ts and giggles I opened it up and regened it in just a hair under 13 minutes

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Nice, well we need a mod to oversee and give us a file. Let's start the game.

 

 

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[Guest CNC Apps Guy 1]

28 seconds...

 

 

That's just sick. Especially when compared to where it started.

 

[Matt Berube at Ferron Mold]

I don't recall seeing too many laptops so I wanted to add this result...

 

8min59sec using X3 demo version...

 

Not bad for an $800 laptop !

 

Acer Aspire 6930G

Windows Vista Home Premium 64 bit version (rated 4.8)

Intel Core2Duo T5800 @ 2.0 Ghz

4.0 GB RAM

Nvidia GeForce 9600M GS video

[Guest CNC Apps Guy 1]

X4 will bring that down in the 4-5 minute range Matt.

[Matt Berube at Ferron Mold]

Yeah, I know. I just don't have any way to plug in the parallel hasp (I know... ) and X4 demo isn't out yet so I used what was available. I was just testing to help somebody out on another forum.

[Rob @ Target Machine]

I'm planning on buying the Dell M6400 Covet this fall after Windows 7 is released. Is there any real benefit buying the QX9300 C-2-Quad processor versus the base model's C-2-Duo 2.53 MHZ processor if I am only running MC X4 Mill Level 1?

 

In other words, can I get a recomendation on how I can best spend my money on this "Top of the line" laptop for use with Mill Level 1?

 

TIA

[FP1]

Guru, I am a real "Tim the tool man Taylor" kind of guy (more power arrrgh) when it comes to my computer, so the 6400 covet is on my wish list too. But when it comes to letting go of my money, I know that I could buy a laptop for half the price of the covet and Mill Level-1 would run just fine. A friend of mine has the M4400 with the FX770 card and it handles Mill lev 1 with no trouble. We do mill level 3 on the M4400 too, but many times we are wishing it had more horsepower in the CPU, Ram, and video card.

[Matt Berube at Ferron Mold]

Guru, for Mill Level 1 you should just get an $800 laptop like I described above and take your wife on a nice vacation someplace with the rest of the money you didn't have to spend on that Dell.

 

Starting at over $3000 and only 2GB of memory is .

[Rob @ Target Machine]

Thanks FP1 & Matt - I'll spend another grand on solids and go to Bermuda. woot woot

[Bruce Kanzelmeyer]

I saw a 17" ASUS laptop at Best Buy over the weekend that was sporting 6 gigs Ram, P8700 DuoCore processor at 2.6 ghz, 500 gig HD and Nvidia card w/1gig DDR3 ram on board and Vista 64 bit--free upgrade to Windows7 for $1299. Not bad for quite a bit of computing power!

[Thee Rickster ™]

Is this a joke????!!!!!!????

 

I just installed X4 multi processor enabled and

got a

 

_{1 min and 50 sec.}

 

X3 was bout 4 mins

[no hardware changes from X3 to X4!]

 

 

I did it 3 times just to make sure I wasent hallucinating and dbl checked all the total tolerances to make sure they were at .0001"

 

WOO HOO, good work on X4 crunch time!!!

[The_Evil_Machinist]

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Is this a joke????!!!!!!????

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lol, I thought the same thing at first. Mastercams multi threading engine is quite amazing. Can't wait for X4 MU1.

[kkominiarek]

rickster thanks for the "holy cow".

 

I never tried the benchmark in x4 till now.

 

In x3 procesing time was 4min 51sec.

 

In x4 processing time is 1min 44sec.

 

Dell Precision WS T7500

Dual Quad core [email protected] ghz

4 gb 1333mhz ram

8 mb cache

Nvidia geforce 9800 GT