I can borrow my lab mates N210 and see what kind of performance I can get
out of it on my T410 Thinkpad (i7 proc).

On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 9:12 PM, Marcus D. Leech <mle...@ripnet.com> wrote:

> > What sort of CPU are you using?
> >
> > --Colby
> AMD Phenom II X6 1055T, with 6GB of 1333MT/s memory.   Rough ballpark
> calculations show
>  me that even a 4096-bin FFT shouldn't take more than about
> 0.45GFlop/sec at 25Msps, and the
>  CPU is easily capable of at least 8GFlop/sec/core.  So I'm not sure
> why it's baffing at 25Msps.
>
> I've tried using both the on-mobo 1GiGE interface, and a PCI-resident
> one.  Neither of those makes
>  any difference to getting large numbers of 'O' at 25Msps.
>
> If I decimate by 3 or more before the FFT (after vectorizing), I runs
> OK, consuming about 40% of the
>  total system CPU, and not producing any 'O'.  I could then,
> theoretically, process the FFT output vector
>  to extract only the magnitudes of the bins that correspond to my
> channels of interest.  But
>  decimating by 3 means that I'm losing sensitivity by a factor of
> sqrt(3), which I'd rather not have
>  to "swallow", the application is for radio astronomy, where
> sensitivity is quite important.
>
> --
> Principal Investigator
> Shirleys Bay Radio Astronomy Consortium
> http://www.sbrac.org
>
>
>
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