On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 08:26:18AM -0400, Tom Lutz wrote: > This may be a somewhat banal question, but what would be the optimal > hardware/software configuration needed to leverage the power of > gnuradio? > > Core i7 versus Core2 Duo versus Other (maybe cell)?
Core i7 should have higher memory bandwidth. > 64-bit Linux versus 32? 64-bit. > Any hardware acceleration/DSP cards? No. > Amount/type of RAM? 2GB+ > While running some flow graphs on an older machine, I found that I had > designed one of my low pass filters too tightly. The large number of > taps in the FIR consumed all the processing power available, and > starved the USRP for data. If you're not using gr.fft_fir_filter_*, you may want to try it. > Is there a way to notify the user when a flow graph begins to fail or > fails intermittently? You could periodically check the value of u.noverruns() Eric _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio
