TART is written in such standard FORTRAN that it runs on virtually any computer.

See the below table for timing results on

CRAY, UNIX workstations, IBM-PC (Windows and Linux), as well as Power MAC.

TART is Incredibly Fast

The below table presents results obtained using a collection of 68 benchmark problems that are distributed with TART.

All problems were run on each computer. This table summarizes timing results for the older TARTND code,

that only runs on CRAY computers, as well as TART on a variety of computers.

Note the advantage of TART over the older TARTND in terms of its ability to be used on virtually any computer.

For example, an $800 IBM-PC quad core, 32 bit/VISTA, computer runs TART2009 over 142 times faster than TARTND does on

a multi-million dollar CRAY-YMP, and a IBM-PC dual core, 32 bit/VISTA/ Laptop runs

TART2009 80 times faster than TARTND does on a multi-million dollar CRAY-YMP.

We've Come a Long Way, Baby

It is also interesting to note how far Personal Computers have come in the last few years.

When TART95 was released in 1996 the then fastest available 486dx2/66 PC took 18,487 seconds to run

this set of benchmark problems. Today's best time of 23 seconds is an incredible 804 times faster -

this is due to advances in computer speed, compiler design, and TART design.

804 Times Faster 

Think about what this means.

A problem that in 1996 took an entire 9 to 5, 8 hour (480 minute) work day to complete, now takes

Only 36 seconds

IT BOGGLES THE MIND!!!!

Code	Computer	Running Time (Seconds)	Ratio to TARTNP on CRAY-YMP
TARTNP (1995)	CRAY-YMP CRAY-J90	5396 7727	1.0 1.43
TART2009 xxx x XXXx TART 2004	DELL eight core/64 bit Windows/VISTA DELL Precision 490/64 bit Windows DELL quad core/32 bit Windows/VISTA DELL dual core/32 bit/VISTA/Laptop Pentium IV/3400	23 30 38 67 65	0.0043 0.0056 0.0070 0.0124 0.0120
TART2002	Pentium IV/2800/LINUX/INTEL Pentium IV/3200 Pentium IV/3020 Athlon XP2400/1800 Pentium IV/2200 DEC-Alpha/EV6.8/1000 Athlon XP1800/1520 Pentium IV/2000 IBM-PC LapTop-III/1200 Pentium-III/1000 PowerMAC/G5/2000/32bit PowerMAC/G4/867 Pentium-III/500 DEC-Alpha Model 5/625 Pentium-III/400 PowerMAC/G4/500 Pentium-II/266 Pentium Pro/200 IBM-PC LapTop/233 PowerMAC/G3/300 iMAC HP-735/125 SUN E3000/166 IBM-PC Lap Top/133 CRAY-YMP IBM-RISC RS-6000 CRAY-J90 Meiko CS-2/66 SUN Sparc-20 PowerMAC 7500/100 SGI R4000/100	85 92.4 94.5 106 111 116 124 132 133 170 219 396 500 516 579 609 855 1185 1301 1350 1664 1834 2107 2990 4262 5739 6095 6225 6315 6446 6953	0.0157 0.0171 0.0175 0.0196 0.020 0.021 0.023 0.025 0.025 0.031 0.040 0.073 0.093 0.096 0.107 0.113 0.16 0.22 0.24 0.25 0.31 0.34 0.39 0.58 0.79 1.06 1.13 1.15 1.17 1.21 1.29
TART95	HP-350 CRAY-YMP DEC-Alpha SUN Meiko SGI IBM-RSIC IBM-PC 486DX2/66	4312 4912 6130 9673 9993 10157 14838 18437	0.80 0.91 1.14 1.79 1.85 1.88 2.75 3.41