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Those who have a 2013 Mac Pro, what type of work do you do?
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I gotcha. Cool job. Do they pay pretty good? If that's too personal ignore it
Pay is good, benefits even better.
I was going to do this. But they told me in the store that I don't need a Mac Pro for web browsing, calendar, iMessages, numbers, etc. They were like get an iMac. Anyway, I ended up getting a 13" MBPr which I connect to an external monitor.
I always think...maybe I should've gotten the Mac Pro! What do you do for a living? It's really expensive for what you use it for...
I went with the stock 6 core too, and a 64GB upgrade
I work in I.T. and like a few others here - often use virtual machines. Truthfully, I could do what I need with the high end iMac but then I wouldn't have as flexible a monitor configuration as the 3 matched 27" displays I use now.
I need the screen space when I do remote support and take control of servers or people's desktops while keeping my email open on another display.
On the side, I game a bit and do some video editing and music creation.
I work in I.T. and like a few others here - often use virtual machines. Truthfully, I could do what I need with the high end iMac but then I wouldn't have as flexible a monitor configuration as the 3 matched 27" displays I use now.
I need the screen space when I do remote support and take control of servers or people's desktops while keeping my email open on another display.
On the side, I game a bit and do some video editing and music creation.
8 core/64 gb ram/d700 here
Computational physics/applied math.
I develop fluid flow simulation algorithms and software in fortran/c++/python/opencl.
Why 8 cores? Allows me to test MPI implementations before deploying on clusters. Didn't really see a need to go up to 12, and most of my code doesn't run fast enough on 4. Consumer chipsets really can't do the job for me, hence xeon.
Why d700? Visualization of 3d data sets in VisIt and paraview. Also developing opencl code before deploying on clusters.
Why mac over a rhel workstation? Personal preference. Code runs on all nix platforms.
Computational physics/applied math.
I develop fluid flow simulation algorithms and software in fortran/c++/python/opencl.
Why 8 cores? Allows me to test MPI implementations before deploying on clusters. Didn't really see a need to go up to 12, and most of my code doesn't run fast enough on 4. Consumer chipsets really can't do the job for me, hence xeon.
Why d700? Visualization of 3d data sets in VisIt and paraview. Also developing opencl code before deploying on clusters.
Why mac over a rhel workstation? Personal preference. Code runs on all nix platforms.
how is it speed performance on AE complex project? I just worry it not as good as top of line iMac , as it use AMD video card .
You should familiarize yourself with what actually uses CUDA. It may be important to your work or it may be absolutely useless.