The majority of our machines (including those at the library) tend to be rolled out with the same software.
Imperial College London using i7 2600 CPUs... in the Library
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The majority of our machines (including those at the library) tend to be rolled out with the same software.
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Greenwich is all on i5's
It's a pain in the arse trying to use matlab on a slow PC, same with big models on Simul8
Go in the Mac lab.
At Sussex, the whole Informatics/Engineering department is on 1366-based quad core Xeons (with HT) plus Quadro GPUs, and the main labs have Dell U2412Ms. Haven't been to the library to use the PCs there (all 20 ish of them), but the PCs in the Psychology department look pretty basic (C2D I'd imagine).
University of Ulster?
They've upgraded the Libraries PCs to the ones I mentioned earlier (some might be i5 but the one I was on was i7). There's also about 4 times the amount they did have.
Always found it a little odd that businesses, libraries etc always use quite beefy CPUs rather than the budget versions, but I guess it comes down to longevity really.
They always manage to be horrendously slow in any case so it's probably a good thing they don't use cheap CPUs.
They always manage to be horrendously slow in any case so it's probably a good thing they don't use cheap CPUs.
The recording studio and music workstations at my uni were updated from Apple G4s to quad core G5s while I was doing my minor in music tech.
They would have been rather rubbish at pro tools and sibelius without them (in fact the G4s were absolutely terrible).
They had absolutely ancient PCs in the Biology lab though, but those werent used by students, any computer related work for Biology was done in the IT suite.
There was a separate dedicated room with higher spec PCs running all the latest software for IT students only, and I'm sure that the graphic design courses would have had their own dedicated studio somewhere too.
The library PCs were only for accessing online jorunals, printing and scanning, any workstation needs would have been addressed by course specific studios as I explained above.
I cried every time I had to use a G4 over my S939 build with an Athlon X2 4400+, but it couldnt run Pro Tools (mac only back then)
They would have been rather rubbish at pro tools and sibelius without them (in fact the G4s were absolutely terrible).
They had absolutely ancient PCs in the Biology lab though, but those werent used by students, any computer related work for Biology was done in the IT suite.
There was a separate dedicated room with higher spec PCs running all the latest software for IT students only, and I'm sure that the graphic design courses would have had their own dedicated studio somewhere too.
The library PCs were only for accessing online jorunals, printing and scanning, any workstation needs would have been addressed by course specific studios as I explained above.
I cried every time I had to use a G4 over my S939 build with an Athlon X2 4400+, but it couldnt run Pro Tools (mac only back then)
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I assume you are are at Greenwich Uni, if so you mean the one in King William?
I may be wrong, I'm a second year and have no idea of my way around Greenwich campus
What course do you do?
Not entirely true. I cant speak for all of the departments but the best we have in Huxley is i7 860s, with 8GB RAM. Couple of the rooms are running Core 2 Quads/Duos, which have markedly worse performance in the sort of simulations I've had to do over the past couple years. They're really handy for stuff I've been doing, short of applying for time with the processor clusters (right pita). Same goes for quite a few people in the department, and that's just for Maths!
Any engineers/physicists/biologists...anything to do with science and technology can happily take advantage of decent tech. Sure a lot of it is going to be used for 'browsing/word processing', but from my perspective as a student knowing I have access to decent hardware is really helpful in the sort of work i do.Basically I'm not complaining
, the libraries are basically full 24/7 i've found so they're certainly not being wasted!
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Greenwich is all on i5's
It's a pain in the arse trying to use matlab on a slow PC, same with big models on Simul8
I feel for you on that one mate, I've had to migrate to C on more than one occasion just to get the simulation speed passable on the best of hardware!
Same. I don't use the library at Hull Uni due to the fact that it takes over 10 minutes to actually log in to open anything in the first place. Sadly thats no exageration either.
I think they are in a position to though... http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-rankings/2010-2011/top-200.html
Well no. Most people are talking about Matlab or other experiments that they're running. Which generally only care about processing speed, not I/O.a lot of people thinking its the processor that makes a computer feel super fast here.
It really doesn't make a huge difference.
An SSD on the other hand.............