4GHz+ Laptop?
16 Jun 2007 3:29:50 UTC
Topic 192852
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How is this possible?
http://einsteinathome.org/host/842503
Have a look at the results pages...this laptop (Core 2 Duo) must be running at 4 GHz or more, or is using a heavily optimized app. Also does this just mean Service Pack 2 : Microsoft Windows XP Professional Edition, Szervizcsomag 2, (05.01.2600.00)
For comparison this is a result I completed at 3.2 GHz (Core 2 Quad) in Linux which computes faster than XP :
http://einsteinathome.org/workunit/33927557
Does this seem right? The laptop is finishing a larger WU in almost half the time it take my host at 3.2 GHz. How can a mobile computer remove that much heat?
There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers. - Richard Feynman
4GHz+ Laptop?
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Well, just because it a mobile Core 2 Duo doesn't mean it has to be running in a laptop case. It could be some 'mad' scientist experimental unit.
The other thought which occured to me is you may have run across one of Akos' 'classified' boxes running a version of S5R2 on steroids. ;-)
Alinator
RE: Well, just because it a
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Yeah I'd though about an open bed running a phase change cooler....but really...24/7?
I like your second though much better. We can only hope! :-)
EDIT : But wouldn't a hidden computer not appear on the list of 'Top Computers'.
There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers. - Richard Feynman
if you look at the machines
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if you look at the machines history you'll see a pattern of steadily increasing speed. I suspect a test machine.
if you look at the machines
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if you look at the machines history you'll see a pattern of steadily increasing speed. I suspect a test machine.
if you look at the machines
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if you look at the machines history you'll see a pattern of steadily increasing speed. I suspect a test machine.
Agreed, and very encouraging
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Agreed, and very encouraging to say the least. ;-)
Alinator
RE: if you look at the
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Testing what? How much voltage you can put through a chip, or a refinement of the app.
There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers. - Richard Feynman
I'm betting on the app, since
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I'm betting on the app, since as you said, you'd have to be really hard core to get into the work involved with pushing a laptop platform to that kind of clock frequency.
AFAIK, there aren't any conventional desktop MB's utilizing the mobile Core 2's yet (but I really haven't researched that aspect at all), so just about everything in the cooling system would have to be custom built for the unit.
Alinator
I'll keep my fingers crossed.
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I'll keep my fingers crossed. All of the results look good so far.
See....this is what happens when the last bit of info from the developers in the last month and a half is "...some hardware is moved around"....we start speculating over random results from some anonymous user. ;-)
There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers. - Richard Feynman
RE: I'm betting on the app,
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Amazing what you can find by googling
I hope I'm wrong, but I still don't think this means that we can expect a Windows release prior to S5R3. With those kinds of gains, then if a Windows app came out for R2, R2 would go from about 60 days left to only about 25-30 days left, and I doubt they're willing to lose half of their testing window. So my guess is this is the optimization work for S5R3.
Now, if someone can figure out if he's got an AMD box that has performance gains by removing the penalty, that'd be great to see...
Brian