Ric> My 400 PII will complete a "set" of Seti data is an average of 8
Ric> hours (my dual 266 PII will complete one set every eight hours, per
Ric> CPU, so it pumps out 2 in 8 hours). The PIII takes 50 hours! per
Ric> set.
Ric> Just a data point. The PIII is a laptop, ...
You don't mention how big the L2 cache is on the two processors. That can
make a huge difference. My 450MHz PIII laptop has a 256K L2 cache. A PII
with a 512K cache may well have a distinct speed advantage if it can keep
most or all of the Seti working set in its L2 cache.
Try "cat /proc/cpuinfo" on your two machines (well, on your Linux machine at
least).
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