--- In [email protected], "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> --- 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. 

I am happy for you that you are omnicient. And know the software I am
running. And how much memory I have. And its type. And the speed of my
buses. And my memory and CPU performance levels on Task Mngr. 
Which beg to differ with you. But I will let them know.







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