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- From: bs@gauss.mitre.org (Robert D. Silverman)
- Newsgroups: comp.benchmarks,comp.arch
- Subject: Re: DEC ALPHA Performance Claims
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.134927.13843@linus.mitre.org>
- Date: 12 Nov 92 13:49:27 GMT
- References: <BxH7s7.5Cv@inews.Intel.COM> <1992Nov10.150330.26923@ryn.mro4.dec.com> <BxInrJ.Lr@metaflow.com>
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- In article <BxInrJ.Lr@metaflow.com> rschnapp@metaflow.com (Russ Schnapp) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov10.150330.26923@ryn.mro4.dec.com>, bhandarkar@wrksys.enet.dec.com (Dileep Bhandarkar) writes:
- >|> Our Alpha AXP products were announced today. The 200 MHz DEC 10000 Model 610 AXP
- >|> achieves 184 SPECmark89, 106.5 SPECint92, 200.4 SPECfp92.
- >|>
- >|> Is there a faster microprocessor system?
- >|>
- >|> Dileep
- >
- >Impressive. Are these actual or simulated results?
- >--
-
- I don't know. I do note that this system costs better than $300K.
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- I would like to see how it performs compared to (say) the Cray YMP-EL,
- whose base price is about $250K, especially on LARGE problems.
- When I say large, I mean something like a 20K x 20K LINPACK, not these
- dinky little 1K x 1K benchmarks.
-
- Why is having a *micro*-processor so important? What really matters is
- price/performance, although for really large problems (e.g. Cray YMP-C90 needed)
- price isn't so important.
- --
- Bob Silverman
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