Re: [Tbb-develop] What Do You Develop TBB On?

[Robison, A. <arc...@in...>]

The TBB group has access to many different machines, ranging from 1 to
64 cores.  

 

The general trend for budget minded parallel programming research is to
favor many cheap slow cores over a few expensive fast ones.  So I'd go
for the cheapest quad core I could find, perhaps even a refurbished one.
(Warning: This advice comes from someone who bought an Apple 6200
Performa off eBay two years ago, and is still running it.)  

 

-Arch

 

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Subject: [Tbb-develop] What Do You Develop TBB On?

 

I'm considering getting an Intel Core 2 Quad-Core PC for my TBB/YetiSim
development.  This would be a bit of a purchase for me, and I'm curious
what others are using for their TBB development.  Does anyone have
suggestions?  I know Intel makes TBB... but AMD has cheaper Quad-core
processors, although I have heard that due to cache design the Intel
ones are better.  Any comments?

I have access to both a 128 processor Itanium-2 system, and a
dual-processor quad-core Xeon... but I can't really run profiling tools
on these systems to analyze performance since they are a shared
resource... and these systems are usually under high load anyways.  The
main point of a new system is for analyzing performance.

Thanks,

AJ