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thomasmallen > A combination of the lower totals Don't you need to know about the numbers that make up those totals? Like if on Pentium 4 the nbody input valu

by igouy 18y ago

thomasmallen > A combination of the lower totals Don't you need to know about the numbers that make up those totals? Like if on Pentium 4 the nbody input value is 20,000,000 but on Q6600 the nbody input value is 50,000,000 ... thomasmallen > the fact that one machine was running Gentoo led me to believe that this machine was the faster !

thomasmallen 18y ago
If the results are proportional between trials and are well-accepted (which these seem to be), I'll admit that I'm less interested in the specifics. If I saw aberrations, I would dig deeper, and I'll admit that my analysis was not rigorous.