Intel is just releasing detailed info on the next generation "Penryn" processors. Pretty exciting stuff. Imagine a 3.0+ GHz quad core CPU able to accelerate one of the cores to much higher clock speeds if the other cores are idle.
Jim,
I was reading the same article. It is very cool stuff and it will be interesting to see how it equates to performance with our cad systems.
Regards,
Anna
But where are the SW benchmarks? I have tested the Intel DUO against AMD and as far as SW performance is concerned there was not near the performance increase that would be expected based on other benchmarking. I don't get excited until I see double the SW performance that I have on my current machine which is three years old in four days.
TOP
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Good point. Anybody could point me to a significant bench for SW'06, as I will shortly get a new machine that I indend to bench against those we have currently. TIA
dude, how do you know your computer will be 3 years old in 4 days? i bet you just happened upon the paperwork and seen a date. right? tell good ol' bob z. he is right. you know, maybe you are on to something. maybe this computer will start treating good ol' bob z. better if we start celebrating its birthday. that'd be sorta cool! :~)>
honestly, bob z. hasn't gotten into the hooch yet. maybe the coffee just isn't working yet...
bob z.
Off topic - but I live near Penryn - Type in the post code TR10 8LT into Google Earth and fly right to it.
See the workstation reviews at MCAD onlline.
Also see the CPU comparisons at
- and SolidWorks results in seconds - lower is better.)
NOTE: If you view the "Workstation Supplements" online, you can't open up the spreadsheets that report the individual benchmark results, but if you download the supplements, the benchmark data is included in the PDF.
On our system the date of inception is part of the Machine ID on the network.
That's cool. bob z. wasn't trying to be rude with his previous post.
bob z.
Imagine how much we are crippled in the use of the coming 3-5 GHz 8 core units when SolidWorks glitches cause wasted hours per week on workarounds and/or reboots?
No amount of CPU speed for me is going to make up for code that is not ready to be the Alpha Pack Leading Sled Dog.
No lame dog please.
The hardware is not the limiting factor in my estimation... After all the discussion over time and assurances of better Quality Assurance, it is still the same as far as I see, and has been for at least the last 5 years. Once a new year release of SolidWorks hits SP4-5, it finally gets production ready for most companies who have to rely on getting to work out.
It is April 1st, and it is no joke that I won't be thinking about converting my files to SWks 2007, until at least mid-summer...again.
I worked for companies a long time back, who made various physical consumer products, and they were always announcing the next new latest greatest product BEFORE it had been debugged in a trial run of parts. The sales departments were always so damned determined to promote, that they couldn't just slow down and wait until the product was optimized that they overrode the engineering department by hammering on the CEO/Pres. who believed the swift talking, stylish sales manager over the rumpled shirt Chief Engineer, who advised not to announce before we had done proper testing of first articles.
At U.S. Divers, they "pre-announced" an oil filled depth gage (to match ScubaPro), and then spent the next 3 years I was at the firm, trying to get the product production ready.
Selling what you do not have is piss poor company management, and could be argued to be serious management malfeasance (IANAL).
Bo
One big time saver with SW is so simple it is like falling off a log. Simply wait for the last SP and then install the new release with the last SP. This saves so much time and effort on several fronts.
One big issue that I haven't yet come to a satisfactory solution to is conversion. This should be done with every release, some more than others. This can take days or weeks and having to do this every year with PDM is insane.
TOP
Top, that is the first complete no-brainer advice on upgrades I've seen posted here.
Thanks - Bo
"TOP" wrote
What is it that takes days or weeks exactly?
John
The last time I converted our vault. Consider what happens when the vault is full of assemblies with 5-10k assemblies and the drawings thereto. The conversion has to be run in each branch of the tree. Now that we have PDM there is more complexity because of revisions being kept. Do you convert the old revs or not?
TOP
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