[MINC-users] CPU Speed

[Vladimir S. FONOV]

Time to adapt openMP in mni_autoreg!

On 15-08-09 10:28 PM, Andrew Janke wrote:
> Anyone elase find it somewhat annoying that things haven't really got
> all that faster in CPU's over the last few years. New desktop Xeon
> based Dell (Precision 5810) is about 14seconds faster than the 6 year
> old i7-950 it replaced. See the last line here:
>
>     https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/MINC/Benchmarks
>
> We have more cores available for the same $$ spent, but they aren't
> getting much faster. They are however available in laptops. Either
> that or a 10% change is not impressive anymore. To put it all in
> perspective, a 2mm non-linear fit that used to take Louis about an
> hour when he wrote minctracc now takes just under 2 minutes.

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  Vladimir S. FONOV ~ vladimir.fonov <at> gmail.com