Best PC for running Prime ?

[GeoffD]

I am thinking of upgrading my Alien 17 R4 laptop  (intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7820Hk CPU  2.9GHz, 32GB RAM ). I would appreciate any thoughts, guidance or recent experience on selecting a  laptop/desktop PC  suitable for running parallel instances of Prime - where each instance is running a large numerically intensive programme. 

Many thanks

GeoffD

[ppal]

https://www.ptc.com/support/-/media/support/refdocs/Mathcad_Prime/9,-d-,0/mathcad_prime_9_0_platform_support.pdf?sc_lang=en

[GeoffD]

Thanks for the quick reply. My quest is to identify which PC is the most powerful, and most suited, to running complex, heavy-duty, memory-intensive Prime worksheets.

[LucMeekes · Accepted solution]

That would be the PC with the most CPU-cores, the highest CPU clock rate AND the largest amount of RAM memory.

Success!
Luc

[GeoffD]

Thanks, Luc for the advice.

It would be good to hear of any domain-specific experience, where Prime's performance on specific machine configurations might have been benchmarked.  The way that Prime operates might not be able to fully leverage a machine with the best of the best - giving no better response than a lesser-grade/cheaper machine.

Regards

GeoffD

[GeoffD]

After agonizing over the different processor options and without finding any metrics on Prime's performance on different machines, I ended up doing pretty much what you suggested - Success 🙂