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Subject: Re: Question for Bob Hyatt

Author: Pavel Blokhine

Date: 14:42:53 02/19/03

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On February 19, 2003 at 12:53:30, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On February 19, 2003 at 11:32:21, Pavel Blokhine wrote:
>
>>You seem to know about computer more than anyone here, so i would like to know
>>how well this computer will do using Deep Junior 7 or Deep Fritz 7 and Frizt 8?
>>
>>From IBM
>>
>>pSeries 690
>>
>>8- to 32-way SMP server utilizing the first ever POWER4 dual processor on a chip
>>using IBM advanced silicon-on-insulator and copper technologies.
>
>The problem is that this is not a SMP server as the world defines SMP.  I have
>not looked
>at it closely, but in the past, such machines from IBM were based on a
>message-passing
>architecture rather than shared memory.  Whether this machine fits that
>description or
>whether it is another NUMA system is something I'll try to look into and post a
>follow-up
>here...
>
>
>>
>>
>>Processor
>>64-bit POWER4
>>
>>Clock rates (Min/Max)
>>1.1GHz / 1.3GHz
>>
>>System memory (Std/Max)
>>8GB / 256GB
>>
>>Internal storage (Std/Max)
>>36.4GB / 18.7TB
>>
>>Performance (rPerf range)***

>>12.72 to 50.56


I found them in the IBM website. I just wanted to know how well a computer using
32 processors and 256 GB of ram will perform against a GM or a Dual.



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