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MetaTrader 4 System

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I have a customer who does day trading, and the software mentioned in the title is what he uses, It involvles a huge amount of permutation calculation. As far as I've been able to find out, it can't use idle GPU shaders for processing. So here's the question. Would it be better to get one mid-range i7-based rig, overclocked it, and go with the entire dataset? Or buy two i5-based machines and split the dataset in half? Which would be the better performer? Which would be the most cost effective? Assume a budget of $1200 or so.
 
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There might be someone who can answer your question here but I believe you have the wrong forum. This is the Distributed Computing forum where we discuss ongoing DC projects like F@H.
 
This is the wrong forum for this, but I would not spilt it up because that would just be too much to manage. And wouldnt allow you to perform analysis across all of the data easily.

I would just get a single i7 system, like an i7 970 32nm. Dont Overclock it, that will just cause stability issues in the future and if this guy is like anyother trader he doesnt want to deal with that kind of bullshit.
Yeah its a $900 processor but im guessing a few extra $$ isnt of too much concern if hes running MetaTrader.

Also is this is for the BackOffice server and not the Terminal client right?
If its the terminal server then he can use just about anything. All data and calculations are run on the backend.
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Not sure if it's the BackOffice server or not. Thanks for the move, wasn't sure what forum it belonged in.
 
I used to do this stuff a little. He's trading futures I'm guessing? Metatrader performs its analysis on the client PC. You download an ugly dataset which is usually just a huge flat file and then you write automated trading strategies using their proprietary scripting language. MT4 isn't even threaded, and I don't think 5 is out yet? You gain no benefit from having a quad core. Splitting the data set is the only way to speed it up, but then you can't perform operations on the entire dataset and backtesting becomes difficult... unless you're talking about splitting out each symbol which is one way to do it.
 
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