[TRNSYS-users] PC capacities to run faster?

Tue Oct 7 01:50:48 PDT 2008

Hi Francois, 

I'm not an expert on PC tuning, but I think you should mainly go for clock and memory/bus speed. 

Adding more memory beyond 1GB is unlikely to speed up TRNSYS a lot, and multiple cores will probably just sit around and wait most of the time - except if you run other processes at the same time on the same machine. (Only the graphical interface uses threads in certain cases, the TRNSYS kernel runs in a single process and does not create any threads as far as I know). 

Werner

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De : Francois [mailto:francois.badinier at icax.co.uk] 
Envoyé : lundi 6 octobre 2008 20:19
À : Trnsys mailing list; Alan Kiff
Objet : [TRNSYS-users] PC capacities to run faster?

Hi all,

I am running a simulation with TRNSYS that takes almost 24h because of a heavy component and a small timestep. I don't want to have to change my parameters because I need accurate results.

Currently, I have got a DELL PC with an Intel Pentium 2GHz and a RAM of 1GB.

I am willing to upgrade to a new computer running maybe 3 or 4 time faster...

Could somebody tell me what equipment would be worth to buy, or even what kind of processor and memory should I consider?

Thanks for some help.

Francois

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