Author: Ernst A. Heinz
Date: 12:12:19 05/22/98
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On May 22, 1998 at 13:19:04, Robert Hyatt wrote: Bob, Great WAC results -- my congratulations! >Note that the ALR machine is running approxmiately as fast as the 500mhz >alpha machine we used in Paris, for comparison. On that machine we were >hitting around 250K nodes per sec... on this machine roughly a little >faster, but about 1/4 to 1/3 of the machine is "wasted" due to search >overhead... So that the newer alpha machines would actually be a bit >faster on one processor, and way faster with more than one... Sounds a bit strange to me if you look at the SPECint95 ratings of a PPro 200 MHz = 8.7 (i.e., 4x PPro 200MHz = 4x 8.7 = 34.8) and a 500MHz Alpha-21164a = 15.0 ... Are you sure about comparing the speeds on the same positions? =Ernst=
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