I would be wary of an OS developed and promoted by a hardware
manufacturer (Intel). The Phoronix benchmarks you linked were conducted
on an Intel Xeon chip. I wonder how Clear OS performs with AMD chips,
which are featuring very attractive performance and price recently.
On 2/7/19 10:38 AM, Karthik Paithankar wrote:
> Dear Program devs and enthusiasts,
>
> After seeing James' email (on dismal CPU performance), I was searching
> for various ideas and found the so-called "Clear Linux Project". Seems
> " function multi-version patch" leads to significant improvements.
> Though I could install the precompiled binary of CCP4 and phenix
> without any issues but there are no improvements to runtime as FMV
> needs 'patching' and compiling.
>
> Could DIALS, CCP4 or Phenix programmers see if this is
> useful/possible? Has anyone tried it?
>
> https://clearlinux.org/documentation/clear-linux/tutorials/fmv
> https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=clear-faster-blas&num=1
>
> Best regards,
> Karthik Paithankar
>
>
>
> On 30/11/2018, James Holton < > wrote:
>> I have a dissenting opinion about computers "moving on a bit". At least
>> when it comes to most crystallography software.
>>
>> Back in the late 20th century I defined some benchmarks for common
>> crystallographic programs with the aim of deciding which hardware to
>> buy. By about 2003 the champion of my refmac benchmark
>> (https://bl831.als.lbl.gov/~jamesh/benchmarks/index.html#refmac) was the
>> new (at the time) AMD "Opteron" at 1.4 GHz. That ran in 74 seconds.
>>
>> Last year, I bought a rather expensive 4-socket Intel Xeon E7-8870 v3
>> (turbos to 3.0 GHz), which is the current champion of my XDS benchmark.
>> The same old refmac benchmark on this new machine, however, runs in 68.6
>> seconds. Only a smidge faster than that old Opteron (which I threw away
>> years ago).
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