Greetings fellow MatLab users,
I just wanted to let everyone know that we have used and perfected an "overclocked" Intel Gulftown (the i7-980X).
The clock speed of this system is truly 5.0 GHz.The Gulftown comes with 6 processing cores, and you'll get all 6 running at 5.0 GHz: true Supercomputing power.
This is not just some "benchmark-only" achievement, our computers run at that speed from startup to shutdown, for hours/days/or weeks at a time.
What this means: Your 16 hour MatLab simulations runing on a 3.3 GHz computer will run in under 8 hours on this hardware, and in several instances may execute in under 6 hours. Why is it better than the ratio of the clock speeds? By removing the CPU-bound process bottleneck, the Gulftown architecture symbiotically redistributes the workload, and the effective processing throughput is often 2:1 or better, even when compared with top-of-the-line chipsets.
This 5.0 GHz workhorse behaves like a 6.6 GHz version of what is on your desktop right now. And if your computer is even slightly older, say a 3.0 GHz or 2.8 GHz system, then the architecture difference would seem like a 7.5 GHz version of your computer.