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I have run my codes (written in Python) in my Notebook (3 GB Ram, Dual-core CPU T4500 @ 2.3 GHz) and in my lab machine (11.57 GB Ram, i7-920 CPU @ 2.67 GHz). However, I have found execution time in Notebook 250.3 seconds, and in Lab machine 333.2 seconds. How is it possible? Good configuration machine performs slower??? I reran the codes, same finding whatsoever. I run Windows 7 in my laptop, and Ubuntu 11.04 in lab machine. Both are 64 bit. When I ran my simulation in Notebook, I also did some other stuffs; however for the case of lab machine I did nothing other than running simulation only.

About the codes: Basically it simply solves some non-linear equations using "fsolve" along with some other calculations.

I will appreciate if some one discusses about possible reasons? For fair comparisons, in both machines I ran exactly the same codes. My codes are not parallelized, is this the main reason i7 processes show slower performance?

Thanks in advance,
Akand

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Is the Python version same and both 32 or both 64 bits version? Could you post the profiler outputs?

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Thanks for your reply. In Windows Python version is 2.6.5 (32 bit), SciPy 0.8.0; and in Linux, Python 2.7.1 (32 bit), SciPy 0.8.0. Well, profiler outputs show 98.8% time was consumed by "fsolve" while I did calculation in Laptop, and 98.5% time in Lab machine.

My codes (or "fsolve" itself) are are not parallelized, is this the main reason of slower performance by i7 processes?

-- Akand

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