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- From: morse@quark.mpr.ca (Daryl Morse)
- Subject: Re: More Alpha AXP Performance Numbers
- In-Reply-To: solman@athena.mit.edu's message of 13 Nov 92 14:09:07 GMT
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- References: <1992Nov10.204139.5148@ryn.mro4.dec.com> <1992Nov13.140907.2304@athena.mit.edu>
- Date: 13 Nov 92 09:08:41
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- In article <1992Nov13.140907.2304@athena.mit.edu> solman@athena.mit.edu (Jason W Solinsky) writes:
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- In article <1992Nov10.204139.5148@ryn.mro4.dec.com>, bhandarkar@wrksys.enet.dec.com (Dileep Bhandarkar) writes:
- |> This is in response to e-mail requests for more benchmark data.
- |>
- |> Alpha AXP OpenVMS (version 1.0) SYSTEMS PERFORMANCE DATA
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- [stuff deleted...]
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- > Based on this data, it is extraordinarily unclear why somebody would
- > be willing to go for the 10000 box when the 3000 delivers better than
- > half the performance at a TINY fraction of the price. Also, why aren't
- > there any multi-processing configurations available?
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- Sure, but in looking only at the performance data you're completely
- missing the point of having different system configurations. Try and
- tell me that a 1x150MHz workstation with 1Gbyte of memory and a 90
- Mbyte/second bus will be as effective for all (read, large) problems
- as a 6x200Mhz mainframe with 14Gbytes of memory and an 800
- Mbyte/second bus. Add in cache sizes, redundancy, available ramdisk,
- etc., and there's even less comparison.
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