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- From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.benchmarks
- Subject: Re: SPECmarks and Multiprocessor Machines
- Message-ID: <1992Aug12.173227.14146@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 12 Aug 92 17:32:27 GMT
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- In article <BsuAp1.KLK@cup.hp.com>, raj@cup.hp.com (Rick Jones) writes:
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- | Finally, SPEC is always looking for a few good benchmarks, so if you do
- | have a benchmark that is "MP," you might want to consider proposing it.
- | I imagine that as MP becomes more prevalent outside of the circles of
- | supercomputing, that SPEC's desire for such a benchmark would increase.
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- As Jeff mentioned, SPEC thinks the current programs are paralellizable,
- although not a lot for most of them IMHO. My person MP benchmark is
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- soelim textbook.t | tbl | eqn | troff -Tpost -mm | dpost >tb.ps
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- which is then compared to the time it took (~4hr cpu) on an 11/780, back
- when we had such things.
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- bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
- I admit that when I was in school I wrote COBOL. But I didn't compile.
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