An evaluation of PCs for high energy physics under Windows NT and Linux |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA;2. Department of Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA;3. Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712, USA |
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| Abstract: | The high availability and commodity prices of Intel-based PCs have made them serious contenders to workstations. We address the question whether PCs are appropriate for running real physics codes. We evaluate the performance of Intel-based systems with two popular 32-bit operating systems, Linux and Windows NT. We report on a suite of benchmark tests, both generic and HEP-specific, where we compare the performance of these two systems to each other, and to other popular workstation class machines. |
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