Hmmm ... linear algebra ... are you by any chance using Atlas? Atlas is
highly optimized for the chips and as many other architectural features as
it can discover, such as cache size. I'm sure a well-tuned Atlas application
is quite capable of bending a machine to its own purposes, quite possibly
to the discomfort of other users attempting to use the system. If the issue
is sharing of resources between the linear algebra code and other users,
perhaps the thing to do is get Atlas, if you're not currently using it,
and then "nice" the linear algebra code.
I run Atlas on my (UP) 1.333 GHz Athlon Thunderbird and it screams. I can
get 4+ GFLOPS in the 3DNOW 32-bit code and well over 1 GFLOP in 64 bits.
-- M. Edward Boraskyznmeb@borasky-research.net http://www.borasky-research.net
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