Hardware influence on performance, multithreading, multicore - Mathcad Prime 9

[Andy_C]

Does anyone know what the internal processing limitations of MCP are w/ regards to the max processing speed and the number of cores, etc.? Same question for multithreading turned on and off.

My company recently purchased a 16-core, 3.2GHz/5.0GHz 'power computer' and I would like to know how much MCP can take advantage of this machine.

Thank you!

[terryhendicott]

Hi,

I run a 16 core (32 logical processes) 3.4 GHz AMD Ryzen 9 chipset with Prime 9.  For video and sound processing it blitzes.

On Prime 8 Windows 11 Pro the Intel math kernel would not work for Cholesky, QR, eigenvecs, eigenval etc that use the kernel because of the AMD chipset.  Prime 8 would simply crash.

This is fixed in Prime 9 Windows 11 Pro. 

Some things like text processing can take a long time in Prime.  28 minutes in one case when compared to same algorithm routine in C++ that for the same text processing takes the blink of an eye.

The only way to time a worksheet using the time() function needs the multithreading off. So who knows?

I can't remember what the post was about but some timings with multithreading off were timed and my system was much faster.

Cheers

Terry

[Andy_C]

Thank you @terryhendicott.
Good to know that Prime 9 has fixed some of those issues.
I will have to do some tests on my end to see how the hardware performs.

[terryhendicott]

Hi,

In Prime one of the calculation options is to allow or not allow Prime to take advantage of multithreading

Cheers

Terry

[Werner_E]

@terryhendicott 

It looks to me that you are answering to a bot.

EDIT:

Just if someone wonders what I am talking about:

The offending posting Terry answered to was deleted by a moderator in the meantime so it now looks that he answered to the OP. IMHO the mod should have also deleted the two follow up postings from Terry and me.