Dual CPU - Running under Linux??

[wimreduct]

I am still looking into ways to increase the speed of calculation. Currently we are still working on X-Math 7. We have received the X-Math 6.3 upgrade, but it hasn't been installed yet.

If we would install dual processors, would it increase the speed?
Can we increase the speed by cutting out windows and working under Linux?

In attachment are the specifications of the desktop on which X-Math is currently running.

[jdigiova]

MATRIXx is currently not supported under Linux. Getting a dual processor machine may help if you bind Xmath to one processor and use the other processor for other programs. This will allow you to work with other programs without effecting the speed of Xmath. Though you would expect to see faster performance from any upgrade in CPU speed.

National Instruments
Joe D.

[wimreduct]

The PC we use for X-Math is almost dedicated to it. No other programs (apart from windows) are running on the system. Am I correct to conclude that closing down windows and working under Linux is not possible, because this could have increased the speed. And secondly, since the processor is already dedicated, dual processing will not have a serious impact on the speed???

[jdigiova]

MATRIXx is NOT supported under Linux therefore you can NOT move to Linux. Secondly even though you may only be running Xmath on the system there are most likely many other processes running that could be slowing performance. If you had a dual processor computer you could insure that ONLY Xmath runs on one processor and thus increase performance.

Joseph D.
National Instruments

[Andy_S]

Is it possible to start xmath for a couple of times on a dual processor machine, running under WinXP ,to run e.g. an optimization with xmath #1 on CPU 1 and analyse the intermediate results on CPU 2 with xmath #2 ? This has been a very helpful feature under UNIX!

[BT_canadair]

You should be able to set the affinity of each session to a different CPU, thus improuving performance.
I have done this on Win 2000.