Hi,
I have just uploaded a couple of new pages to our website.
http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/Imaging/spm_benchmarks.html
describes some results from timings of real SPM jobs on three platforms.
Well-tuned Linux on a Pentium 4 comes out very well; rather surprisingly, we
find that analyzing data on the local hard disk does not give very large speed
gains compared to good NFS.
As various recent emails have pointed out, there are some problems with SPM/
matlab on the Pentium 4. Another new page:
http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/Imaging/spm_intel_tune.html
collects various fixes and speedups for the P4; there are more benchmarks to
show the speed increases that are available.
Best,
Matthew
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