Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 20:26:48 04/23/98
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On April 23, 1998 at 16:28:54, Frank E. Oldham wrote: >On April 23, 1998 at 00:06:36, Robert Hyatt wrote: > > > >>based on the g4 ppc chip > > > >Unfortunately no G4 is out yet, but IBM has an early version of the >POWER3. Quoting IBM "The target operating frequency is 500+ MHz, >estimated peformance is 30+ SPECint95, 70+ SPECfp95. The POWER3 >processor will be at the heart of a 4096-processor RS/6000 SP super >computer. When the system is upgraded with POWER3 processors in 1998, it >will deliver a whopping 3.0 teraFLOPS." > >A recent BYTE article discussed the POWER3. I was impressed by the >aggregate cache and memory bandwidth. For example, the chip has a >256-bit L2 cache bus (compared to 64-bit for PCs and Macs). > >See http://www.ssd.sscc.ru/library/cpu/ for good info on new chips. don't forget the good old pentium pro... it has a 256 bit bus between the L1 cache and the processor... still a nice machine 2 years after it was introduced...
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