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- From: tlhouns@ns.pacbell.com (Lee Hounshell)
- Subject: How does the new 2000+MIP Sun server compare against a Cray/XMP?
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- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 18:56:38 GMT
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- Douglas W. Forehand (dwf@doug.Eng.Sun.COM) wrote:
- : The following announcement was made today, November 10, 1992.
- :
- : SMCC INTRODUCES WORLD'S FASTEST UNIX SERVER
- :
- : SAN JOSE, Calif. -- November 10, 1992 -- Sun Microsystems
- : Computer Corporation (SMCC) today introduced the industry's most
- : powerful, expandable and affordable high-end UNIX(R) server...
- :
- : The new Sun(TM) server has higher performance than any other
- : UNIX server available today. In its 20-way configuration, it
- : delivers 2.19 GIPS (giga {billion} instructions per second) and 269
- : MFLOPS (million floating point operations per second)...
-
- Just out of curiosity, does anyone happen to know the MIPS/MFLOPS
- rating of a Cray/XMP? (I think that's the most powerful Cray..)
- I'm interested to know how the new 2000+ MIP Sun server stacks up
- performance wise.. thanks.
-
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- Lee Hounshell - (510) 823-2432
- tlhouns@srv.pacbell.com
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