Benchmark

[Odell]

HA HA HA .... 1 min & 48 sec....ZOOOOOMMMM!!!

[JG]

Dell studio 1747 laptop i7 Q720 (1.6ghz), windowZ 7, 4gb ram, 1gb ati, 2:14

[Richard Thomas - Mastercam UK]

Previous time in X4 Mu2:

quote:

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3 Mins 58s

 

Dell Vostro 400

 

X4 MU2

Vista Business 32

Intel Core 2 Duo E6550 @2.33Ghz

2Gb Ram 667Mhz DDR2

160Gb SATA

Nvidia Geforce 8600GT 256MB

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I ran thetest again today in Mu3 and it's pretty much the same.

 

And now in vapourware on the same box:

2:17

[Brian B 74]

Anyone know what the fastest laptop time is? Looking at getting a new one for doing programming at home.

[[email protected]]

You'll just have do look back in this thread.....it's only 30 pages

[Brian B 74]

Fabulous!

[The_Evil_Machinist]

^^^

 

The new macbook pro's have i7's in them

[Mic]

Dell Precision M6500 Covet

Core i7-920XM Quad Core 2.0GHz

8GB Ram

Win7 Pro 64Bit

Intel X25-M 34nm SSD

 

First time 2m 39.69s

Second time 23.407s

 

MCX4MU3

 

James:

 

What have you done to your M6300 to get that time?

[Brian B 74]

My Gateway laptop ran it in 3:18 and it has a dedicated video card and a 1.8ghz core2duo. Maybe I am ok for now. I didn't know if there were any laptops sub 2m mark.

[Mic]

quote:

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First time 2m 39.69s

Second time 23.407s

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Found a problem. All time during calculation CPU use was only 12% ( 4 cores + hyperthreading )

 

If I disable "enable Multi-threading" in settings I get a total time of 2m 58.838s.

 

So it looks like my mastercam has a problem using all the cores fully.

 

Any good suggestions?

[John@WMM]

Installed X4 today

 

Old x3 time 4:58

 

New x4 time 1:26

[Mic]

Found the problem. Mastercam.exe wasn't assigned to all cores. So this I changed manually in the task manager.

 

New run:

First time 1m 30.083s

Second time 19.48s

 

Pretty good for a laptop

 

[ 04-21-2010, 04:05 PM: Message edited by: Mic ]

[Brian B 74]

My gateway was $1200. The Dell M6500 configured for Mic is in the ball park of $5000. I think I am good with my Gateway.

[Mic]

quote:

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The Dell M6500 configured for Mic is in the ball park of $5000

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Very close With some discount from Dell we ended on 4620$ less the Intel SSD which adds 460$ for the 160GB version.

 

But I'm very happy with this new machine.

[Brian B 74]

Umm....I would be too!

[The_Evil_Machinist]

quote:

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First time 1m 30.083s

Second time 19.48s

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So you had a total run time of 1m 49 sec on a laptop? Damn, that things cookin!

[Mic]

The 1m 30.083s was regen of all 3 ops after changing the tolerance from 0.001 to 0.0001. 19.48s was the second regen after all ops was calculated.

[Steve Hattori]

Mic, my best has been 1 min 7 sec- Clevo D901C, Xeon 3370, Intel X25m SSD. Its almost 2 yrs old now, so we should be seeing some faster laptops here soon.

I wish I knew how to "cluster" this thing with my desktop, like Evil Machinist- the complex 5x and tight surface programs run WAY too slowly.

Still, a good fast laptop comes in very handy!

 

If you are looking for less expensive, high quality alternative the $$$ Dells, google

"Sager" and check out the new stuff...

[The_Evil_Machinist]

^^^

Not worth it. My clusters down right now cuz VMware updated the virtual machine software and it won't use my scripts to send out to xGrid

 

I just keep it in my siggy to remember the days when I was the first to break the sub 30 sec mark in mastercam. ON A MAC!!!!

 

Apple: 1

 

Winblows: Told!

[Steve Hattori]

Evil- not a Win fan myself-

But, a friend in Europe has been running a new HP with dual 6-core Xeons and 24 threads running at once- I think it does the benchmark in seconds...

They are a partner with HP and are working on the multi-threading apps.

I gotta git me one... Currently, $2800 ea for the cpu's..

He says this (mcam) won't take advantage of a Tesla cuda-based machine. Too bad.

[Mic]

quote:

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They are a partner with HP and are working on the multi-threading apps

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This sounds like HSMWorks from Denmark

 

I don't think it would so much faster on this Mastercam benchmark.

 

So far Mastercam only uses 1 core for each job being calculated and as the benchmark only have 3 job's you won't see any difference between quad and hexa core as long as GHz and cache is the same.

[Steve Hattori]

Mic, I think the surface routines are multi-threaded, so it would help any of the routines which use multi-threading...

Yes, Cimco is the guys...good stuff...

[Mic]

quote:

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I think the surface routines are multi-threaded, so it would help any of the routines which use multi-threading

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Don't think so at least not the HST cycles used in this benchmark.

 

My laptop is a quadcore with hyperthreading ( 8 cores ) but during the benchmark max cpu use between 30 and 40% If these cycles was multi-threaded it would have used all 100%

 

( My HSMWorks puts 100% load in the cpu )

[Steve Hattori]

Mic, I'll run another one and see- I seem to recall, as you discovered, that mc only uses one core, but windows distributes it over all 4, and uses multi-threading- hence the faster times on 4-core multi-thread machines. I am no expert on this, so I will ask my friend if he has time to test the benchmark on his dodecacore and see what it does...

[Kyle Waters]

First time

1m 38.624s

Second time

20.794s

 

Dell Precision M4400

Intel Core 2 Duo T9800 @ 2.93GHZ

8GB of RAM

Nvidia Quadro FX770M

Vista Business x64

WD 596GB 5400RPM Hard drive