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 a quad core AMD phenom II ) > > > I'm currently using a QX9770 overclocked to 3.6GHz, but with somewhat sluggish (for that processor) memory. I'm hoping to get a memory upgrade soon.
I run *large* FFTs for SETI analysis, and that requires lots of memory, and increasing certain system parameters (SHMMAX). The "Next Generation" of my standard hardware platform will be a Core i7 920, overclocked as much as reasonable, with fast memory (6GB to 12GB). I'm doing multi radio astronomy and SETI analyses in parallel on data streams that may be arriving as fast as 16M samples per second. More CPU Igor, more CPU! Can't wait until Intel starts pushing hard on the new bus (QPI??), and brings out processors with more than 4 CPUs. -- Marcus Leech Principal Investigator, Shirleys Bay Radio Astronomy Consortium http://www.sbrac.org _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio
