Issues with Athena on high-performance systems
Hi, Im curious if anyone else is experiencing issues with Athena in more high-end systems running Windows 7? While I am used to having to wait for the first plot to show up, the software is virtually unusable to me now where any slight change (e.g. modifying range for the spline) to already imported data takes up to over a minute to replot. This didnt use to be the case for me. The system is a laptop running Win 7 Professional with 2.40 GHz i7 CPU/16 GB RAM with plenty of space on the hard drives and a dedicated Intel HD 4600 graphics circuit. If anyone has a work-around for this problem or can suggest anything to make Athena usable again, it would be most appreciated. Has anyone noticed previous versions of Athena running more smoothly? Best regards, Nils ------------------------------------------------------------------ Nils Skoglund, Ph.D. Post-doctoral researcher Energy Science Department of Engineering Sciences and Mathematics Luleå University of Technology SE-971 87 Luleå Sweden Cell : +46 (0)72 529 52 08 Web page: http://www.ltu.se/org/tvm/Avdelningar/Energivetenskap?l=en http://www.ltu.se/org/tvm/Avdelningar/Energivetenskap?l=en Publications: http://www.researcherid.com/rid/D-3493-2011 http://www.researcherid.com/rid/D-3493-2011 -------------------------------------------------------------------
HI Nils, My laptop has i5 (2.4GHz)/Intel/16GB running win7prox64 and I have no issues, even with the first plot. How many files are you trying to plot? I test with just one and everything works fine. -R. On 6/25/2015 9:06 AM, Nils Skoglund wrote:
Hi,
I’m curious if anyone else is experiencing issues with Athena in more high-end systems running Windows 7? While I am used to having to wait for the _first_ plot to show up, the software is virtually unusable to me now where any slight change (e.g. modifying range for the spline) to already imported data takes up to over a minute to replot. This didn’t use to be the case for me. The system is a laptop running Win 7 Professional with 2.40 GHz i7 CPU/16 GB RAM with plenty of space on the hard drives and a dedicated Intel HD 4600 graphics circuit.
If anyone has a work-around for this problem or can suggest anything to make Athena usable again, it would be most appreciated. Has anyone noticed previous versions of Athena running more smoothly?
Best regards,
Nils
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Nils, We run Athena on non-wimpy Windows 7 systems at our beamline computers all the time, using both 64- and 32-bit Windows, and typically on multi-core machines with at least 16 Gb RAM and multiple screens. Like Robert, we don't see any real performance problems with a handful (<50) spectra. Athena rarely makes a very big dent in the system resources (well, comparable to a web browser, so a bit of a hog, but well under 1Gb RAM). Perhaps what you're seeing is related to the plotting with Gnuplot. I'm not sure why that would be a problem... Any ideas? --Matt Hi, I’m curious if anyone else is experiencing issues with Athena in more high-end systems running Windows 7? While I am used to having to wait for the *first* plot to show up, the software is virtually unusable to me now where any slight change (e.g. modifying range for the spline) to already imported data takes up to over a minute to replot. This didn’t use to be the case for me. The system is a laptop running Win 7 Professional with 2.40 GHz i7 CPU/16 GB RAM with plenty of space on the hard drives and a dedicated Intel HD 4600 graphics circuit. If anyone has a work-around for this problem or can suggest anything to make Athena usable again, it would be most appreciated. Has anyone noticed previous versions of Athena running more smoothly? Best regards, Nils *------------------------------------------------------------------* *Nils Skoglund, Ph.D.* Post-doctoral researcher Energy Science Department of Engineering Sciences and Mathematics Luleå University of Technology SE-971 87 Luleå Sweden Cell : +46 (0)72 529 52 08 Web page: http://www.ltu.se/org/tvm/Avdelningar/Energivetenskap?l=en Publications: http://www.researcherid.com/rid/D-3493-2011 *-------------------------------------------------------------------* _______________________________________________ Ifeffit mailing list Ifeffit@millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov http://millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov/mailman/listinfo/ifeffit
Hi all,
I am not an expert in this. In fact , I am one of the very new user of
athena.
But have you tried uninstalling and then reinstalling the whole package
again? ( I am sure you have but since you didnt mentioned just wondering?)
Sometimes, that also helps. not sure why and how? but it did for me.
Pushkar
On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 5:00 AM, Matt Newville
Nils,
We run Athena on non-wimpy Windows 7 systems at our beamline computers all the time, using both 64- and 32-bit Windows, and typically on multi-core machines with at least 16 Gb RAM and multiple screens. Like Robert, we don't see any real performance problems with a handful (<50) spectra. Athena rarely makes a very big dent in the system resources (well, comparable to a web browser, so a bit of a hog, but well under 1Gb RAM).
Perhaps what you're seeing is related to the plotting with Gnuplot. I'm not sure why that would be a problem... Any ideas?
--Matt
Hi,
I’m curious if anyone else is experiencing issues with Athena in more high-end systems running Windows 7? While I am used to having to wait for the *first* plot to show up, the software is virtually unusable to me now where any slight change (e.g. modifying range for the spline) to already imported data takes up to over a minute to replot. This didn’t use to be the case for me. The system is a laptop running Win 7 Professional with 2.40 GHz i7 CPU/16 GB RAM with plenty of space on the hard drives and a dedicated Intel HD 4600 graphics circuit.
If anyone has a work-around for this problem or can suggest anything to make Athena usable again, it would be most appreciated. Has anyone noticed previous versions of Athena running more smoothly?
Best regards,
Nils
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Web page: http://www.ltu.se/org/tvm/Avdelningar/Energivetenskap?l=en
Publications: http://www.researcherid.com/rid/D-3493-2011
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-- Best Regards, Pushkar Shejwalkar. Post-doctoral -Researcher, Tokyo Engineering University, Sapporo, Japan
Hi Nils, Maybe you should try run some tests with another graphic plotter software (like Origin/Matlab etc) to verify the stability of your system. Sometimes, reinstall the demeter package can be necessary as well. Check your hardware to overheating (GPU and CPU) and the demand of processing during the software operation. Good luck. Everton ----- Mensagem original -----
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Para: ifeffit@millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov Enviadas: Quinta-feira, 25 de Junho de 2015 9:06:22 Assunto: [Ifeffit] Issues with Athena on high-performance systems
Hi,
I’m curious if anyone else is experiencing issues with Athena in more high-end systems running Windows 7? While I am used to having to wait for the first plot to show up, the software is virtually unusable to me now where any slight change (e.g. modifying range for the spline) to already imported data takes up to over a minute to replot. This didn’t use to be the case for me. The system is a laptop running Win 7 Professional with 2.40 GHz i7 CPU/16 GB RAM with plenty of space on the hard drives and a dedicated Intel HD 4600 graphics circuit.
If anyone has a work-around for this problem or can suggest anything to make Athena usable again, it would be most appreciated. Has anyone noticed previous versions of Athena running more smoothly?
Best regards, Nils
------------------------------------------------------------------ Nils Skoglund, Ph.D. Post-doctoral researcher Energy Science Department of Engineering Sciences and Mathematics Luleå University of Technology SE-971 87 Luleå Sweden
Cell : +46 (0)72 529 52 08 Web page: http://www.ltu.se/org/tvm/Avdelningar/Energivetenskap?l=en Publications: http://www.researcherid.com/rid/D-3493-2011 -------------------------------------------------------------------
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ebonturim@usp.br
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Matt Newville
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Nils Skoglund
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pushkar shejwalkar
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Robert Gordon