The machine I started with was my 2009 Mac Pro with the following stats:Īfter reading through various blogs, forums and other sources online, I discoved that the early 2009 (model 4,1) Mac Pro, essentially has the same motherboard as the 2010-2012 (model 5,1) machines, with a different firmware. I thought this might be a topic of interest to some out there in the Achaia. Along the way, I benchmarked the system with each upgrade to see the step-wise change in speed. After doing some reading on a potential upgrade path for the 2009 Mac Pro, I decided to give it a try, and have yielded some impressive results. Due to a recent contract, I am in need of some more computational capacity. I also have a computation machine which is a 8-core 3ghz Haswell-E machine (overclocked to 4.2ghz), with a GTX Titan Black for CUDA, running linux. My development and day-to-day workstation is a 2009 8-core 2.66ghz Mac Pro which was getting long in the tooth. Quick background- I have my own consulting company, doing subsurface fluid flow modeling using a custom simulation code.
