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P4 or G4 if I use matlab
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Join Date: Aug 2002
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My advisor will buy a powerful computer for me to calculate in Matlab.
My question is: G4 is faster than P4 in matlab??? Did anyone test it?
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Join Date: Sep 2000
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I don't have a solid answer, but I had the same situation with the difference that my Texan Faculty Advisor would rather have been hornswoggled (whatever that means) than buy one of those Commie Macs, so I automatically got a Windows workstation.
The upshot was that I spent tons and tons of time reinstalling Windows and trying to get the OS environment "just right", instead of doing actual work.
So I probably would have been more productive on a G4 even if it was slower.
But that's just me. 
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sb told me that for now the macs under OS X are slower with Matlab...
BUT, I found these web site (simply by Googling "matlab benchmark"):
site 1
use a G4 with Linux.... or wait a pray that AAPL improve its system...
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Join Date: Nov 2002
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As for using a G4 with linux- there is no PPC linux version of matlab, although you could nab Octave, but that isnt the full matlab.
As for a G4 versus a P4, strictly for Matlabbing, I'm sorry to say it (as I type on my Powerbook G4), but I would definatly go with a P4 system, running linux. I have a 1.2ghz Athlon system running Linux, and it runs most matlab functions significantly faster then my Powerbook. I am also, currently looking for a good computation machine (gotta love that grant money), and I will definatly be going with a dual 2.8ghz Xeon system.
-Mark
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Join Date: Apr 2001
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yes.. of course I wanted to write : use a P4 in a linux box!
I never wrote P4 before... sorry
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