David, Luckily, phoronix has also benchmarked 10 different linux OSes on a Ryzen 7 1800X and a Threadripper 1950X chip: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ryzen-linux-10way&num=3
-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jim Fairman C: 1-240-479-6575 On Thu, Feb 7, 2019 at 8:16 AM David Schuller <schul...@cornell.edu> wrote: > I would be wary of an OS developed and promoted by a hardware > manufacturer (Intel). The Phoronix benchmarks you linked were conducted > on an Intel Xeon chip. I wonder how Clear OS performs with AMD chips, > which are featuring very attractive performance and price recently. > > > > On 2/7/19 10:38 AM, Karthik Paithankar wrote: > > Dear Program devs and enthusiasts, > > > > After seeing James' email (on dismal CPU performance), I was searching > > for various ideas and found the so-called "Clear Linux Project". Seems > > " function multi-version patch" leads to significant improvements. > > Though I could install the precompiled binary of CCP4 and phenix > > without any issues but there are no improvements to runtime as FMV > > needs 'patching' and compiling. > > > > Could DIALS, CCP4 or Phenix programmers see if this is > > useful/possible? Has anyone tried it? > > > > https://clearlinux.org/documentation/clear-linux/tutorials/fmv > > > https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=clear-faster-blas&num=1 > > > > Best regards, > > Karthik Paithankar > > > > > > > > On 30/11/2018, James Holton < > wrote: > >> I have a dissenting opinion about computers "moving on a bit". At least > >> when it comes to most crystallography software. > >> > >> Back in the late 20th century I defined some benchmarks for common > >> crystallographic programs with the aim of deciding which hardware to > >> buy. By about 2003 the champion of my refmac benchmark > >> (https://bl831.als.lbl.gov/~jamesh/benchmarks/index.html#refmac) was > the > >> new (at the time) AMD "Opteron" at 1.4 GHz. That ran in 74 seconds. > >> > >> Last year, I bought a rather expensive 4-socket Intel Xeon E7-8870 v3 > >> (turbos to 3.0 GHz), which is the current champion of my XDS benchmark. > >> The same old refmac benchmark on this new machine, however, runs in 68.6 > >> seconds. Only a smidge faster than that old Opteron (which I threw away > >> years ago). > > ######################################################################## > > > > To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: > > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 > > > -- > ======================================================================= > All Things Serve the Beam > ======================================================================= > David J. Schuller > modern man in a post-modern world > MacCHESS, Cornell University > schul...@cornell.edu > > ######################################################################## > > To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 > ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1
