Re: NEC-LIST: speed comparison between PC and Mac

Concerning speed/operation comparison between PC and Macintosh for
NEC:

I have been using NEC-4 on a Power Mac 7300, 200 MHz for some time and
my lab just got GNEC from Nittany Scientific, which is a PC-only
application. It was mounted on a 200 MHz Pentium II PC. The GNEC
implementation is a very fine implementation, but on those models
where the Mac NEC-4 version had enough nodes (wires) to fully model
the antenna, the Mac ran consistantly 25% faster.

Admittedly these two machines are NOT the spec. you have in mind, but
I find the results amusing.

As an aside, may I plead for anyone who may have a Macintosh version
of NEC-4 which can run REALLY LARGE models please let me know.

Hope this info helps,

Darryl Holder

"Lee, Sung-Shin" wrote:

> Dear all list-members
>
> Currently, I use a IBM-compatible PC to analyze EM problems.
>
> My compiling environments are as follows.
> Pentium-III processor with 866 MHz
> 1 GB RAM
> Compaq Visual Fortran 6.1 with INTEL's Math Kernel Library
>
> Is there any benifit (especially, for speed) if I use Macintosh with
> G4 processor. Please, comment any if you are using Macintosh with
> NEC.
>
> Regards.
>
> Lee, Sung-Shin
> EMT
> mailto:ee88_at_postech.ac.kr
Received on Mon Nov 20 2000 - 04:07:56 EST