The house badge of top computer performance passed to a new machine today.
Back in 2007 I put together a PC that would match the performance of a T90 Cray supercomputer. It needed to be able to do more than 30 giga flops and have over 20GB of memory. Turned out to be a great machine with a water cooled 12 processor CPU, 3 * 9TB Hdd for lots of storage and a Nvidia graphics card for evaluating the Cuda programming environment.
The previous hand built machine was used it for Folding at home, Cuda programming research, some gaming and other computational heavy lifting. ( more notes here ).
Now upgraded to ....
The new machine is a M2 Studio with 2TB storage, 96GB memory and now proudly wears the house top computer badge.
Using a simple single thread benchmark the Studio is about 40 * faster than the previous machine taking just 9s to deliver results that the older machine chewed on for over 6 minutes. The studio is also silent and draws very little power. The computational test is ...
% time echo "6^7^8" | bc -l | cksum
2486905450 4617825
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| The top spec Studio |
It's not just the computational performance that makes this machine outstanding. Disc speed to the internal SSD measures at a whooping 6.5 GB a second compared with 300 MB a second to a directly attached SSD and 100 MB a second over gigabit to a NAS box of storage. As the Mac Studio has an absurdly large amount of ram, it's probably buffering the internal IO that achieving the phenomenal speeds.
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| Mac Studio |
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| USB 3 Attached SSD |
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| Network atached storage |
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