http://www.apple.com/displays/ http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/sna.asp...rasharp_monitor . The only displays to ever buy. (and yes I recommended a dell display. Don't freak out, the world is not ending )

quote: I always smoke a doob before programing anything importantthe only way to program My superstitions: Program only off solids :puts flame suit on: Save before verify/posting If over 200Mb, switch to bootcamp instead of virtual machines due to Xgrid being dead Daily VM snapshots Solids on level 1, wire on level 2, containment geometry on level 3. Always! Don't use tool 13 and 7

quote: Get a real systemBut how can you have a real system if it is running a patched/antiquated kernel?

Graphics wise we aren't pushing them in mastercam. So why not throw multithreading to the gpu for cuda powered processing? A test I did against CPU vs GPU was cracking tripcodes. The CPU on my machine could crack about 15 million trip codes a second but when I rewrote it for cuda, my GPU could crack about 400 million a second!!!! What would take my CPU centuries to crack my gpu cpuld do in in a matter of weeks! Why not utilize that? For more info on trip codes just wiki it.

^^^ yea but no one listens to me when I say that multithreading needs to be converted to CUDA in mastercam. Our little Quadros are supercomputing capable! But what do I know *shrugs*

quote: I've built many machines using Asus or Gigabyte motherboards which have RAID built into the chipsetThats software based raid. Motherboards don't have true raid built in and it's done through the bios. quote: cool to know SSD support raid 5 as well. It would be some serious money, but I think my next box will have 4 SSD and be raid 5Then you'll bottleneck your northbridge. Pointless to do that. quote: dual I7 processorsRead up on QPI paths. i7 = single socket Xeon = dual socket.

yep.

yes but at 4 the parity algorithm is balanced and you then can hot swap a drive when it fails.

quote: Evil you like Sever 2008 R2?Imagine windows 7 with a server sticker on it. Thats what its like. Is there anyway you could use BSD or Linux? quote: you might want to look at an SSD with its own garbage collection like OCZ. All good SSD's have built in garbage collection and don't require any instruction sets to be sent to the drive to invoke it. Garbage collection is not a drive saver, its more of a necessary to run the SSD. If you're looking at getting a SSD, only and I mean ONLY buy Intel. Three year no questions asked warranty. quote: A rep from Dell has informed me that the ICH7/8/9 series SATA controllers can't pass the trim command to the drive no matter what OS you're runningFirst lesson of computers: When a dell rep tells you something, disregard and go to the manufacturers website to find out. The Intel controllers all support trim.

quote: I use the motherboard RAID 0 array and have no problem. Seperate RAID cards are very expensive and software RAID is not very good.I hope you back all your data up everyday. Software raid + raid 0 = Guaranteed trouble. Really, all OS's have trim support but windows 7, windows server 2008 R2 and linux 2.6.33 have native support. All other times you can just send the commands manually a couple times a day or just write a small script to deploy the trim program. Thats what I did for my macbook pro when I put a intel x25-M in it.

Oh boy I hope you guys running raid drives have a raid card instead of using the motherboards raid function. Motherboard RAID = Software based raid. Not true raid 0 speeds and will break very easy RAID card = Hardware controller for raid drives. Stability + true raid 0 speeds. Only raid 0 SCSI server drives or SSD's. Anything else is a placebo. Raid 1 = best economical backup solution. Raid 5 = God tier workstation raid setup but needs 4 drives and a hardware controller.

How bout openCL optimization for gpu computing? >windows Oh right... Ok, how bout mastercam for mac?

I'z here! Ok, now the question is what are you going to be programming? The new macbook pro is one hot machine. It also depends if you are going to be using virtual machines or bootcamp. The new update of VMWare fusion uses OpenCL for virtual machine processing so I can't really tell any difference between that and bootcamp (dualbooting).

^^^

Or a mac

Windows still wont use all the processing power of the computer.

quote: How much is a Mastercam worthy Mac? I was truly impressed.Not much. It depends on what you want to do, either boot camp (dual booting) or virtual machines. The only way I can get the stupid insane speeds I get is that my shop is full of macs so I use Xgrid (cluster computing) with a virtual machine that is OpenCL optimized. Basically I make up for my hardware shortcomings with added nodes/good software to run the clients.

I DO!!!

BRB, attempting domain name parking

Makes a mac cluster look cheap!

18 secs. Gettin there... .

Mac wants you...

Just received an update to VMWare virtual machines so lets see if I can get my benchmark record back! Gotta fix my cluster and rewrite my Xgrid virtual machine scripts. Good way to kill the rest of the day

This thread makes me jealous. My nc mill is half my age

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