Building a Desktop Number Cruncher

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Tom said:
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Oh ... I'm not wanting to kill this thread!! I am soaking up
knowledge like a thirsty sponge. I just want to throw in some
gratitude along the way!!
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I think I may have already advised this, but try to ensure you get
an ECC capable system, and that you mount ECC memory in it. There
is no substitute. Absolutely nothing else monitors and corrects
memory errors.
 
Tom said:
Thanks NT --

I was unaware of winsolo. I did a quick search and found it easily. :)
My guess is that it would be excellent for stand alone and dedicated
number crunching. I need to research it further. If it also terminated
firewall protection ... maybe best to run unconnected to the world? I
am not sure. If *everything* unneeded is shut down ... maybe it is
impossible for network connections to operate too? Thus no outside
threat exists? Very interesting !!!

Your comment led me to do a search on "Speeding up Vista for Gaming".
Several links there and lots of interesting material. Even though I
don't own Vista (not yet) ... getting some knowledge beforehand is a
good thing. :) I'm not really a gamer ... more of a lamer .. hahaha
... but I do like fast number crunching efficiency.

Thanks again. Excellent tip.

-- Tom
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It really does shut down everything, no explorer, no taskmon, nada.
I've not used it when connected to the outside world, so I dont
know, I just presumed it would lose the connection as you say.

It does provide quite a boost to app speed, but then if you've got
8G RAM, multiple cores etc, I do wonder whether the various
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windows components might start adding up to an increasingly
small percentage of total load, so on a high end system I dont
know how much it would buy you. Worth a play though - though
the version that runs on winNT is sadly $ware.

Another option may be to set up a dual boot approach using just
one OS, so that you can boot as normal or boot with nothing
running but your app - no taskmon, explorer, font substitutes, or
any other win module thats not needed. I guess you'd need 2 sets
of boot files, and something that will copy either one to C:
for booting.


NT
 
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Another option may be to set up a dual boot approach using just
one OS, so that you can boot as normal or boot with nothing
running but your app - no taskmon, explorer, font substitutes, or
any other win module thats not needed. I guess you'd need 2 sets
of boot files, and something that will copy either one to C:
for booting.


NT
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This would also give more performance boost than winsolo, but take
significant time to set up & optimise.


A ready made intermediate might be a lightweight 3rd party shell,
which would be light & quick and easy to install, but not as
thoroughly stripped down as a custom job.

I think it was liteshell I played with, not certain, plus setshell to
switch between shells. Designed originally for 486 use it really had
no fluff. No taskbar or systray, no start button, nowt on the desktop
but a blank screen.

http://www.labyrinth.net.au/~mosses/rob/liteshell.html


NT
 
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