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- From: akin@sgi.com (Allen Akin)
- Newsgroups: comp.graphics
- Subject: Re: NCGA Picture Level Benchmark (was: Time to put up or shut up)
- Keywords: benchmarks NCGA GPC
- Message-ID: <pakhf8k@fido.asd.sgi.com>
- Date: 1 Sep 92 21:17:17 GMT
- References: <1992Aug20.172200.17418@dsd.es.com> <ortnla8@fido.asd.sgi.com> <1992Sep1.194132.2601@dsd.es.com>
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- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
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- In article <1992Sep1.194132.2601@dsd.es.com> rthomson@dsd.es.com (Rich Thomson) writes:
- | In article <ortnla8@fido.asd.sgi.com>
- | akin@sgi.com (Allen Akin) writes:
- | >If I had to guess, I'd say that SGI hasn't pursued the PLB because it
- | >hasn't made a difference to sales. If PLB numbers were prerequisites
- | >for some significant number of purchase orders, the company would work
- | >on them more aggressively.
- |
- | ...
- |
- | SGI is very eager to publish its SPECmarks for the processors on its
- | machines. The SPEC benchmark suite is similar to the PLB benchmark
- | suite in conception. The only conclusion I can draw from this is that
- | SGI must not perform very well on the benchmark and doesn't want to
- | publish "bad" numbers.
-
- Gee, Rich, that's not very imaginative. Surely you can draw more than
- one conclusion from that data. :-)
-
- The most likely situation is the one I mentioned earlier: It takes
- time and effort to do a good job on the PLB, and if there's little
- demand for the result, then it makes sense to use the resources on
- other projects. That's just normal business practice, especially in
- lean economic times.
-
- SPEC is different because it figures prominently in many RFPs. If
- there was comparable demand for PLB data, then I imagine SGI would
- pursue the PLB project more energetically.
-
- This group is read by a number of people who are better-informed than I
- am about the state of PLB at SGI, so perhaps one of them will reply.
- I truly don't know how well SGI machines perform on the PLB, or if
- anyone is spending time to find out.
-
- Allen
-