Re: NEC Timing

        The example cited below was run on a 192MHz Sun UltraSparc1
with 256 MBytes RAM utilizing single precision NEC2. The results were:

                Fill: 2.671 seconds
                Factor: 1.108 seconds
                Run Time: 3.900 seconds

        Ray Anderson
        raymonda_at_radium.eng.sun.com

> In conjunction with the results provided by Dick Adler I add the
> following:
>
> Proposed by Larry Laitinen. The problem was a 299 segment dipole
> over perfect ground. The NEC data set is the following:
>
> CE
> GW 1,299,-139.,0, 6.,+139.,0, 6., .001,
> GE 0,
> GN 1,
> FR 0,0,0,0, 0.54,
> EX 0, 1,150,0,1., 0.,
> RP 1, 1, 1,0000, 1.5, 0., 0., 0., 1000.,
> EN
>
> MININEC Professional calculated this problem in 9 seconds using
> the same 299 unknowns. This is compared to a NEC calculation
> of the 22 seconds on an Intel Pentium 120-MHz.
>
> On a 486-120, the time required to perform the above calculations using
> NEC2 was 56.7 seconds.
> ===================
> Joe Finnerty
> jdf112_at_psu.edu
> Paragon Technology
>
Received on Fri May 31 1996 - 21:27:00 EDT