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- From: sog@craycos.com (Steve Gombosi)
- Newsgroups: comp.benchmarks,comp.arch
- Subject: Re: DEC ALPHA Performance Claims
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.000309.5624@craycos.com>
- Date: 12 Nov 92 00:03:09 GMT
- References: <1992Nov11.043149.17257@engage.pko.dec.com> <BxKI38.DM7.2@cs.cmu.edu>
- Organization: Cray Computer Corporation
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- In article <BxKI38.DM7.2@cs.cmu.edu> lindsay+@cs.cmu.edu (Donald Lindsay) writes:
- >
- >sharpe@adodem.enet.dec.com writes:
- > [ A list of the MFLOPS the Alphas get, inverting dense matrices. ]
- > [ I have extended the list to give people a feel for the context. ]
- >
- >>
- >>System 100x100 dp 1000x1000 dp
- >>
- >Compaq Deskpro 486/33 1.4
- >DEC 5000/200 (25 MHz R3000) 3.7
- >Cray-1 11 31
- >>DEC 3000/400S AXP 26.4 70.8
- >>DEC 10000/610 AXP 42.5 111.6
- >Convex C3810 (1 proc) 44 113
- >Cray C90 (1 proc) 387 874
- >
- >
- >So, the desktop Alpha is more than twice a Cray-1,
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- Which is very nearly 20 years old.
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- >and 7-8% of a C90.
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- No, it's 7-8% of one C90 processor. The C90 is a 16 processor machine.
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- Steve
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