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By far the most important thing is to have enough RAM so all the data will fit into memory. Even a slow CPU will often stay ahead of a fast hard drive.
In general you will be better off with a high GHz 2 core system than a lower GHz 4 core system, unless you are breaking up the tests into subranges which are run on separate instances of Amibroker.
--- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "ozzyapeman" <zoopfree@xxx> wrote:
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> I stepped up from a similar configuration to Vista 64-bit on an new Intel i7 965 processsor-based PC with 12 GB RAM, and noticed up to a 40%-60% speed increase on optimizations.
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> More importantly, I can smoothly run up to 6 instances of AB simultaneously, with parallel WF tests (basically split up my larger WF runs into 6 sub runs). So the overall efficiency increase for me has been substantial.
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> --- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Mike Mann" <m3m@> wrote:
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> > Does someone have a recommended configuration for fast walk forward optimization. I'm doing three variables with 500 combinations with monthly steps over 70 years of data and taking about 5 hours on pentium 4 dual core 3 ghz machine with 2 gb of ram using windows xp.
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> > Looks like it's time for serious upgrade, but I don't have experience with configuring more than a simple workstation.
> >
> > Help?
> >
> > Thanks, Mike
> >
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