https://community.intel.com/t5/Mobile-and-Desktop-Processors/Brutalizing-the-CPU/m-p/441911#M19949 <P>Out of boredom I wrote a trivial progam to calculate the Fibonacci sequence. After testing a large interger package I found I was able to generate numbers with thousands of digits no problem.</P><P></P><P>After several revisions I have leveraged it into a brutal benchmark for testing the CPU and RAM as well as how fast your terminal window is.</P><P></P><P>So I have posted it on my site, <A href="http://contract-developer.dyndns.biz/">http://contract-developer.dyndns.biz/</A> <A href="http://contract-developer.dyndns.biz">http://contract-developer.dyndns.biz</A> and its CPU agnostic but it requires the so-called x64 class CPU and lots of RAM.</P><P></P><P>I hope you like my 2 days of work, it was fun to see it go.</P> Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:33:19 GMT Vegan 2010-03-08T19:33:19Z https://community.intel.com/t5/Mobile-and-Desktop-Processors/Brutalizing-the-CPU/m-p/441911#M19949 <P>Out of boredom I wrote a trivial progam to calculate the Fibonacci sequence. After testing a large interger package I found I was able to generate numbers with thousands of digits no problem.</P><P></P><P>After several revisions I have leveraged it into a brutal benchmark for testing the CPU and RAM as well as how fast your terminal window is.</P><P></P><P>So I have posted it on my site, <A href="http://contract-developer.dyndns.biz/">http://contract-developer.dyndns.biz/</A> <A href="http://contract-developer.dyndns.biz">http://contract-developer.dyndns.biz</A> and its CPU agnostic but it requires the so-called x64 class CPU and lots of RAM.</P><P></P><P>I hope you like my 2 days of work, it was fun to see it go.</P> Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:33:19 GMT https://community.intel.com/t5/Mobile-and-Desktop-Processors/Brutalizing-the-CPU/m-p/441911#M19949 Vegan 2010-03-08T19:33:19Z https://community.intel.com/t5/Mobile-and-Desktop-Processors/Brutalizing-the-CPU/m-p/441912#M19950 <P>I have updated the program, I noticed my like was not working, I am going to check it again, after suggesting my new version is now available.</P> Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:36:18 GMT https://community.intel.com/t5/Mobile-and-Desktop-Processors/Brutalizing-the-CPU/m-p/441912#M19950 Vegan 2010-03-10T03:36:18Z