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Actually I think a good number of high-end Mac users are scientists and engineers. These benchmarks are good data for them.
by Recurecur 9y ago
Actually I think a good number of high-end Mac users are scientists and engineers. These benchmarks are good data for them.
- sgillen 9y agoI haven’t seen very much of this in my experience. Most Mac using scientists and engineers I know use a MacBook for email/webrowsig etc. but when they need some serious computation they use an external cluster (which they talk to with their Mac). That being said I do know one such scientist with the same workflow but who remoted into a Mac Pro, not sure what they are doing now.
- acdha 9y agoMost of the scientists I know do both: interactive work to prove the idea or for moderate sized data sets, and the cluster for when they have stable code and a huge amount of data. Since the capacity of a laptop has steadily increased, the relative ratios have shifted over the years.
- PeterisP 9y agoFor me, the main use of such hardware is to allow running multiple non-lightweight VMs locally. It would be convenient if I could run machine learning tasks locally, but that's limited to very small models (since it doesn't have an nvidia GPU and AMD hasn't yet done their homework to ensure that common software packages work), so those tasks need a remote server anyway.
- danieldk 9y agoI am from a university department with mostly high-end Mac users. But no, we do actual computation on Linux machines. Why? It's the only (reasonable) way to cram capable NVIDIA GPUs, large amounts of memory, large amounts of storage and 32/64 cores in a machine.