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- From: Patrick F. McGehearty <patrick@convex.COM>
- Subject: Re: Cyber Speeds
- Originator: patrick@wagner.convex.com
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- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.165340.8396@news.eng.convex.com>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 16:53:40 GMT
- Reply-To: patrick@convex.COM (Patrick F. McGehearty)
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- In article <martineau-080193081105@macmartineau.ccr.hydro.qc.ca> martineau@MacMartineau.ccr.hydro.qc.ca (Alain Martineau) writes:
- ...in response to request for info about CDC Cybers vs 486PCs...
- >
- >The LINPACK performance table can be obtained by sending to netlib@ornl.org
- >a message saying:
- >send performance from benchmark
- >
- >Here is what I found:
- >CDC Cyber 2000V 32 Mflops
- >CDC Cyber 205(4-pipe) 17 Mflops
- >CDC Cyber 205(2-pipe) 17 Mflops
- >CDC Cyber 990E 12 Mflops
- >CDC Cyber 4680 9.4 Mflops
- >CDC Cyber 875 4.8 Mflops
- >CDC Cyber 176 4.6 Mflops
- >CDC Cyber 760 2.6 Mflops
- >CDC Cyber 175 2.1 Mflops
- >CDC Cyber 180-860 2.1 Mflops
- >
- >The first 486 listed is
- >Compaq Deskpro 486/331-120w/487 1.4 Mflops
- >
-
- As a further clarification for those not familiar with the Linpack
- benchmark suite, these numbers reference the 100x100 version of Linpack,
- which requires an all Fortran solution. The 1000x1000 version allows
- architecture specific algorithms and assembly language tuning. The
- differences can be substantial. For example, the Cyber 205(4-pipe) is listed
- at 195 Mflops for the 1000x1000 problem set vs 17 Mflops for 100x100 problem
- set, an improvement of over 1000%. The range of difference varies strongly
- with architecture, with vector and parallel architectures typically showing
- much larger gains for the larger problem than scalar architectures. For
- example, the DEC VAX 6000/410 (1 processor, scalar) shows 1.2 Mflops on
- 100x100, and only 1.5 Mflops on 1000x1000, an improvement of only 25%.
- Vendors who do not expect significant gains on the 1000x1000 problem over
- the 100x100 problem are inclined to not submit results for the 1000x1000
- problem. So, my conclusion is that the linpack comparison shown above tends
- to understate the floating point performance advantage of the Cybers over a
- PC. Readers should also be aware that Linpack performance says nothing
- about integer or I/O performance.
-
- If this discussion whets your appetite for more architecture/performance
- comparisions, read comp.benchmarks for a few weeks. Also be prepared for
- the constant cavet 'your mileage will vary'.
-