Hey all,

Just interested to find out peoples' views on crunching with windows or linux. Which is better?

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Define "better".

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well, maybe the real question should be, what is the best OS, there is a lot more than windows or linux out there.
Me, I'm a very archaic thinker, and took seti crunching code, played with it, and was able to get an intel celeron to crunch two seti work units, each took 49 minutes to do. This is an intel celeron 1Ghz machine. But with my customized own pc dosalike pseudo OS, I have no way to get the data to somewhere that I can send it back. So it is useless for me to take it farther. I compared the outcome (manually, boy what a task), and it looked fairly good, not exact, but I think it would have passed the test for accepted data.

My next trip down the one way trail, to do it on a DSP,

why?

why not? just to do it.

Unfortunately I don't know enough about the intel compilers or intel cpus to be able to help with the optimization guys doing real dirty work, but code is code, I like to bust them bits.

[edit: But back to the question at hand. I would say linux should be faster, less overhead.]

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Thanks, and Keep on crunchin'
John Henry KI4JPL
Sevierville TN

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and I still have some of it left.
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[edit: But back to the question at hand. I would say linux should be faster, less overhead.]

It's this and that actually.

As things stand currently, we have a draw between Linux and Windows if you want to. Brighter for Windows generally I'm affraid. If you look at the machine with Prescott (quite some way down in the table), net result is that running Seti app in Windows gives better results. Mainly due to better C compiler(s) available for Windows as the test of running windows binary in WINE under Linux reveals (the latter being faster than natively in windows).

Philosophically there is no real comparison between the two.

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Metod ...

... net result is that running Seti app in Windows gives better results. Mainly due to better C compiler(s) available for Windows as the test of running windows binary in WINE under Linux reveals (the latter being faster than natively in windows).

You have to love it when an emulation/host runs a binary faster than it runs natively ...

Oh, and don't forget OS-X ...

Though my all time favorite OSes are VAX-VMS and/or OS/2 ... though OS-X is getting me there ...

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