Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Recommended PC Hardware for Performance

2009-05-19 Thread Marcus D. Leech
Martin DvH wrote: > On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 08:26 -0400, Tom Lutz wrote: > > > gnuradio depends heavily on floating point performance and memory > bandwidth. > It makes good use of multiple cores. > > So if you can afford it use a quad-core processor with a high memory > bandwidth. > ( i7 quad or

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Recommended PC Hardware for Performance

2009-05-19 Thread Martin DvH
On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 08:26 -0400, Tom Lutz wrote: > This may be a somewhat banal question, but what would be the optimal > hardware/software configuration needed to leverage the power of > gnuradio? > > Core i7 versus Core2 Duo versus Other (maybe cell)? gnuradio depends heavily on floating point

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Recommended PC Hardware for Performance

2009-05-19 Thread Tom Lutz
Awesome! Thanks for the info. I don't think I'm using the fft filters, so I'll give that a shot. Tom On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 12:05 PM, Eric Blossom wrote: > On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 08:26:18AM -0400, Tom Lutz wrote: >> This may be a somewhat banal question, but what would be the optimal >> hard

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Recommended PC Hardware for Performance

2009-05-19 Thread Eric Blossom
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 08:26:18AM -0400, Tom Lutz wrote: > This may be a somewhat banal question, but what would be the optimal > hardware/software configuration needed to leverage the power of > gnuradio? > > Core i7 versus Core2 Duo versus Other (maybe cell)? Core i7 should have higher memory

[Discuss-gnuradio] Recommended PC Hardware for Performance

2009-05-19 Thread Tom Lutz
This may be a somewhat banal question, but what would be the optimal hardware/software configuration needed to leverage the power of gnuradio? Core i7 versus Core2 Duo versus Other (maybe cell)? 64-bit Linux versus 32? Any hardware acceleration/DSP cards? Amount/type of RAM? While running some fl

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Recommended PC?

2006-08-18 Thread Eric Blossom
On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 04:57:47PM -0700, Bob Collins wrote: > I am just starting out with Gnu Radio and want to purchase and/or > build a PC that will cause me the fewest extraneous problems. I figure > that those of you using Gnu Radio may have opinions on the matter but > I was unable to find an

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Recommended PC?

2006-08-18 Thread Berndt Josef Wulf
On Saturday 19 August 2006 09:27, Bob Collins wrote: > I am just starting out with Gnu Radio and want to purchase and/or > build a PC that will cause me the fewest extraneous problems. I figure > that those of you using Gnu Radio may have opinions on the matter but > I was unable to find anything i

[Discuss-gnuradio] Recommended PC?

2006-08-18 Thread Bob Collins
I am just starting out with Gnu Radio and want to purchase and/or build a PC that will cause me the fewest extraneous problems. I figure that those of you using Gnu Radio may have opinions on the matter but I was unable to find anything in the archives. For the RF-IF, I plan on getting Matt Ettus