Prorealtime CPU recomandations

• 08/22/2016 at 4:20 PM #12059
  Kenneth Kvistad

  Hi..

  When i probacktest lets say 9 months back in brent crude oil and probacktest variabels like moving avrage 20-200 and another mowing avrage with 50-200 it can take as long as an houer or more on my computer. I run PRT with my laptop lenovo T420 with intel I5 cpu.

  I was wondering if anyone know if I could speed this up if a bought a new computer with right CPU specs for this types of applications?

  I have tried PRT with I7 cpu and the diffrense were little to non.

  Is there anybody here who could recomend anything that could work? I am no computer expert but I do know that the program itself might not be faster evan if I buy a computer with lets say more mhz and 10 cores for that matter if the program it self limit it self to only run on certain demands from the cpu.

  Someone with better expertise than me might come in handy here

  

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  08/22/2016 at 5:00 PM #12060
  Kenneth Kvistad

  here is a link for simular question from the forum 3 weeks ago:

  http://www.prorealcode.com/topic/fast-computer-for-backtesting/

  

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  08/22/2016 at 7:06 PM #12070
  Nicolas

  If you are referring to variables optimization, it is normal that it took so long.

  ProBacktest/ProOrder is server-side. It means that codes are running directly in PRT servers, straight connected to the market. Optimizing many variables demand an huge CPU charge for the servers and unless you are the only PRT customer that is currently doing optimization, it may take some times.

  My advice about optimization is to reduce the step of periods to 5 or 10, not to 1 because it will not make any important difference in the results that justify to do so.

  

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