Recent content by bookman3

So I think its settled. I haven't been a big Dell fan in the past, but I may be a convert. The support/warranty could be a much bigger deal than I had thought. With a little help, I got an estimate close enough to my budget to make it work. Dell T5810 Xeon E5-1650 v3 32GB DDR4 ECC R...

The simulation studies scale perfectly since its n independent sequential executions of the code. This will be a 1/5 or less of my daily work when I start. I hope it will become a larger proportion over the first year or two. My daily work in R can be parallelized somewhat (e.g. sets of...

I7Baby -- here you go Approximate Purchase Date: ordering asap Budget Range: $3000 max, colleagues have tended not to use full budget System Usage from Most to Least Important: 1) standard statistical analyses in R, some SAS 2) MCMCs written in C, likely new work in C++ 3) machine...

NTMBK & Geforce-- good point. I have a tough time swallowing $500 for an ssd and even more for 32gb of ram. Is it worth getting either of these separately? Likely through a different it contract (cdwg)? And where would I find coupons, just search the net?

Hi all, Been around since the 90s under various usernames, but tend to only post when I'm in the market for something new and lurk when I'm not. I'm about to start a new job and was wondering if you could help me put together a top notch build. I'm just starting my career as a statistician...

Rockin' a Dell P4 540 at work. PITA. C2D E6300 Conroe @2.8ghz at home (w/ an x25-m 80gb SSD). 3ish yrs old & still rocking.

I'm a research analyst at a small company. I spend most of my time in SPSS/R/SAS & ArcGIS. ArcGIS is definitely the most demanding programs as it sequentially redraws each layer/dataset of the map whenever a change is made. I'll probably be getting the new machine through Dell. Suggestions...

Is there a benchmarking software that would represent the performance & usage of a stats program like SPSS? I need to numbers to prove to my boss that my computer is uber slow & old. We use a lot of SPSS, Access, Excel & VBA. The current plan is to just keep track of how long it takes one...

k... It appears there is little HD activity while the maps is drawing, but the CPU usage caps out at a steady 25%. Its a 4 core CPU and the activity is split across the four processors, but never goes above 25%. My personal comp is an ASUS p5q w/ C2D E6300, 2gb ram & an X-25m g2 80g SSD...

I store the maps & data on the workstation. We have gig ethernet, but storing on the network was still very slow. I may be able to convince our dba/tech-support person to allow a Win7/64 pc (w/ SSD) on the network, but we did finally just upgrade the server to 2003 & office from 03 to 07 over...

Also, CPU usage jumps around on one of the cores (between 60-100%) when a map is drawing, the other 3 remain relatively idle. I'll look around also, but what prog should I use to check HD activity?

hey guys, just got back from an extended lunch. Here's the link to the system reqs. I'm currently using version 9.3.1 http://wikis.esri.com/wiki/display/ag93bsr/ArcGIS+Desktop The workstation has an Intel Xeon E5405, 2gb of RAM, Quadro NVS 290 gfx, WD 80gb WD800JD HD and is running winXP...

Hi all I need to build/purchase a pc specifically for designing national maps with detail down to 5-digit zips. My current pc is a 'high-powered' dell workstation, but is extremely slow for the task. Boss would want to purchase, though if it saves enough money I probably could convince him...

Thanks. I figured that'd be the response. I've posted my first question in there, Now, how about a dedicated site for database programmers / data analysts...?

If you've heard of companies using MSAccess to store & manipulate flat files without any implementation of the relational db say Yes if not, say no: Anyone know how common it is for companies/individuals to use MSAccess to store and manipulate flat files, without any implementation of its...