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Fast CPU for routing deliveries on Map Point

jastreet1

jastreet1

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Hi all,

I am looking at the quickest way I can get our software Map Point to route quickly. Currently, it takes considerable time on our main routing computer (i3 sandybridge) even on my computer running an i7 3820 @ 4.2GHz its pretty slow.

What can I do to speed this up since this a CPU intense task? Large budget can become available if realistic and would produce much better results.

Thanks guys.
 
Is it multi-threaded?

Probably couldn't get much better than a dual CPU board running Xeon E5-4650 CPUs (8 hyper threaded cores each, so 32 threads at 2.6Ghz). The price is astronomical mind.

Alternately you could possibly look at splitting the processing over several machines using something like Windows HPC
 
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You've not really given us enough information to go on to make an informed decision. Can you give more information about OS, RAM and Disk please?

Are you sure it's CPU intensive? What tests have you done to identify the bottle-neck?

Routing data has to be stored somewhere during processing - is it in memory or on disk?

Is your CPU at 100% when calculating across all cores? I'd be very surprised if it was.

I can't believe that just any core i7 can't crunch this stuff fast enough, there has to be something else holding things up.
 
On my personal computer, the specs are (excluding CPU already mentioned);

Intel 180GB SSD
16GB 1600Mhz RAM
GTX 670

So its a high spec and its maxing out processor.

I just want a PC which can quickly throw out routes.

Cheers
 
Googling around it seems Map Point is single threaded/very poorly multithreaded... It's going to be pretty hard finding a better CPU.
 
Orcvader said:
Googling around it seems Map Point is single threaded/very poorly multithreaded... It's going to be pretty hard finding a better CPU.
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Technically then, the OP can run 3-6 programs at once (IIRC the 3820 is hex yes?) so then 1 program takes 1-2 cores, run 3 at the same time.

No idea if that will work though as I have no idea how map point works.
 
But even then he said it's still slow on his 4.2ghz i7. So assuming he can get 5ghz on an i5 it will still feel slow.

Are there any good map point alternatives? Possibly multi threaded? GPU accelerated even?
 
Orcvader said:
But even then he said it's still slow on his 4.2ghz i7. So assuming he can get 5ghz on an i5 it will still feel slow.

Are there any good map point alternatives? Possibly multi threaded? GPU accelerated even?
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Yup - doubt you can get that much quicker than sandy bridge @ 4.2

Phase change could easily get an ivy bridge up to 6GHz... but it's hardly stable enough for continuous use :(
 
if this is IO bound rather than CPU bound, is it worth looking at using a Ram Disk rather than your existing disk - I see you already use SSD mind you.
 
I think your best choice would be looking in to alternative software. Although I don't know much about what's available. It just seems its the software at fault considering your home set up, map point must be poorly optimised.
 
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