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Hi Frank, We have compiled OpenSees in Linux Redhat Enterprise Ed. on 3 GHz, 64-bit processors. It compiles fine, however runs very slow (i.e. 4 times slower than in a 2 GHz, 32-bit Win32 machine). We suspect the Linux version may be a DEBUG version, however the DEBUG_FLAG in Makefile.def appears to...

:oops: Please disregard my earlier posting. I had the compiler settings wrong in visual studio.NET and was compiling the debug version instead of the release version. The release version for 1.6.2 has similar calculation times to that of 1.5.2 for the example problem I referred to. Sorry for the con...

I recently upgraded from OpenSees 1.5.2 to v1.6.2 (cvs) and have noted significantly longer calculation times for the new version of the code. I made a simple 3D test model of a cube meshed with 1000 std brick elements. The ElasticIsotropic material was used and a single point load was applied over ...