Guys,
Don't laugh at my terrible C# coding, but I have put together a very simple benchmark for NT.
I wanted to do this with hopes that users of the forum would post their results, along with their system configuration like which processor they have, and then we can compile these results into a table where we can rank NT performance by processor type.
I welcome improvements to the code, I am sure there are numerous ones! To be honest, I am not even sure if the math calculations I am using will realistically represent NT results, so I am hoping to get some official input from the NT team here on this one.
Personally, I am running an Intel E6850 Core 2 Duo overclocked to 3.51 ghz with 8GB of ram, and I use VMware Workstation to 'maximize' my NT backtesting by running more than one instance of NT simultaneously. I am eagerly anticipating two things: a) Intel's Core i7 965 Extreme processor, due out any day, and b) NT 7 which will be multi-threaded.
But, I found myself wondering "how much faster will the Core i7 965 be with Ninja vs my current setup? Or vs a cheaper Core 2 Quad?". This benchmark was written to try and answer that question, by letting the users of this forum participate.
To run the benchmark, just install it and select any symbol in the strategy analyzer, select 1 minute interval, and set the time range to just one market day. The benchmark uses math to decide the speed of the system, it does not depend on how much tick data you feed it.
Don't laugh at my terrible C# coding, but I have put together a very simple benchmark for NT.
I wanted to do this with hopes that users of the forum would post their results, along with their system configuration like which processor they have, and then we can compile these results into a table where we can rank NT performance by processor type.
I welcome improvements to the code, I am sure there are numerous ones! To be honest, I am not even sure if the math calculations I am using will realistically represent NT results, so I am hoping to get some official input from the NT team here on this one.
Personally, I am running an Intel E6850 Core 2 Duo overclocked to 3.51 ghz with 8GB of ram, and I use VMware Workstation to 'maximize' my NT backtesting by running more than one instance of NT simultaneously. I am eagerly anticipating two things: a) Intel's Core i7 965 Extreme processor, due out any day, and b) NT 7 which will be multi-threaded.
But, I found myself wondering "how much faster will the Core i7 965 be with Ninja vs my current setup? Or vs a cheaper Core 2 Quad?". This benchmark was written to try and answer that question, by letting the users of this forum participate.
To run the benchmark, just install it and select any symbol in the strategy analyzer, select 1 minute interval, and set the time range to just one market day. The benchmark uses math to decide the speed of the system, it does not depend on how much tick data you feed it.
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