On Nov 29, 2008, at 7:35 AM, pong wrote:

> Hi,
>
>      I wonder if SAGE is optimized for multi-core CUPs (people told me
> that many programs don't).

Sage has many components. Some of them can take advantage of multiple  
cores, but there's still a lot of work to do in that direction. There  
is also support for more coarse-grained parallelization.

> Also, does it matter (in term of speed)
> that SAGE is running on a 64-bit OS vs 32-bit?

For most things the speed is comparable, but IIRC there are cases  
where 64-bit is faster.

> In general, what would
> have to most significant impact on the speed of running SAGE, # of
> cores, OS or simply the clock-rate of the CUP?

Bumping up the clock-rate of the CPU will certainly help everything,  
whereas increasing the number of CPUs will only help certain things.  
It all depends on what you're doing.

>      I know very little about computer hardware, so I apologize if my
> questions doesn't quite make sense.


They make total sense. Are you planning on purchasing a computer and  
running Sage on it? I'm sure other people could give you even more  
specific details.

- Robert

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