--- In [email protected], akasha_108 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > on 9/12/05 7:18 PM, akasha_108 at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > --- In [email protected], anonymousff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > > >> are you into heavy image or graphic processing, that you need it? > > > > > > Maintaining a large stripper database. Joke. > > > > > > I do a lot of optimization work -- currently with a quite cool genetic > > > optimization algorithm. It involves long runs -- sometimes 24-48 > > > hours. The faster the CPU the better. > > > > What are you optimizing? > > Financial models. It involves a huge number of simulations. If one > were to do all possible simulations, it would literally take 10^xxx > years to complete. So optimization methods seek to intelligently pick > the higher probability paths.
I'm almost positive you're memory bound, not CPU-bound. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
