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| Subject: | Re: [gislist] Processor |
| Date: |
01/12/2004 12:45:01 PM |
| From: |
Quantitative Decisions |
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At 12:56 PM 1/12/2004 -0500, Elizabeth Martinez wrote:
>I am preparing to buy a new desktop and want to know if the Pentium 4
>with hyper threading is a benefit for GIS (ESRI products) or if it is of
>no use...
This should be an FAQ :-).
ESRI products currently do not specifically exploit multi-threading. They
nevertheless do benefit from machines with a few multiple processors (two,
typically, which is more or less what hyper-threading is attempting to
emulate on a single chip) as will any other GIS software, because at least
one processor is always available for user response or other tasks even
when the GIS software is busy with an intensive analysis or long print job.
Having used (and built) just about every combination and price point of
hardware out there for GIS, whenever it comes time to upgrade I find myself
wishing for a pair of processors but instead have been buying machines with
faster processors, much better video cards, more RAM, and faster hard
drives: the peak performance is higher, the cost is cheaper, and I can
usually control any system slowdowns simply by lowering the priority of any
intensive task, via Windows (NT, 2000, XP)'s Task Manager applet.
In sum, expect hyper-threading not to affect peak GIS performance with ESRI
products, but to make the system overall more responsive to user interaction.
Cheers,
Bill Huber
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