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Subject: Re: News about Alpha 21464 (EV8)

Author: Gregor Overney

Date: 12:58:35 01/24/01

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>
>Some info about the used alpha systems.
>
>21164 has 8kb L1 cache,
>what do i need to say more?
>
>for diep a 633Mhz 21164 is as slow as a PII at 380Mhz.
>
>So that's a PIII at 300Mhz.
>

Just ran a few tests with my old 21164 that only has a clock rate of 566. I am
using Linux with g++, which is by far not very optimized for the 21164. On NT, I
am using VC++ 6.

The test is a real-life thing (at least for me). It recursively determines the
cluster size of huge molecules. Something that forces all CPU's to leave their
cache and pick up data from slow RAM. So the 21164's larger L3 cache of 4MB does
not really affect the performance too much.

Gregor

BTW: The system running at 850 is just a laptop with a 100 MHz memory bus.
Nothing exciting. The system with the PIII/600 has 133 MHz memory bus. An RDRAM
system is expected to be even faster.

/*
	OS				CPU/MHz		Cache			Compiler		Options					Time
	-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
	WinNT 4.0 SP5	pII/300		32/512(150 MHz)	VC++ 6.0 SP3	-Ox -Ob2 -G6 -Gr -GX	 31
sec
	WinNT 4.0 SP6	pII/300		32/512(150 MHz)	VC++ 6.0 SP4	-Ox -Ob2 -G6 -Gr -GX	 31
sec
	WinNT 4.0 SP5	pII/300		32/512(150 MHz)	VC++ 6.0 SP3	-Ox -G6 -GX				 45 sec
	HP-UX 10.20		PA-8000/180	unknown			HP aCC			+Oall					 72 sec
	Linux 2.0		21164/566	16/96/4MB		g++ 2.7.3		-O5						 22 sec
	WinNT 4.0 SP5	p6/200		16/256(200 MHz)	VC++ 6.0 SP3	-Ox -Ob2 -G6 -Gr -GX	 79 sec
	WinNT 4.0 SP5	p6/200		16/256(200 MHz)	VC++ 6.0 SP3	-Ox -G6 -GX				 45 sec
	WinNT 4.0 SP4	pIII/600	32/512(300 MHz) VC++ 6.0 SP3	-Ox -Ob2 -G6 -Gr -GX     15
sec
	Win2000 Pro SP1	pIII/850	32/256(850 MHz) VC++ 6.0 SP4	-Ox -Ob2 -G6 -Gr -GX 	 14
sec
	Win2000 Pro SP1	pIII/850	32/256(850 MHz) VC++ 6.0 SP4	-Ox -G6 -GX				 18 sec
	Solaris 8		USPARC IIi	32/2MB(400 MHz)	g++ 2.95.2		-O3					13 sec
*/




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