Author: Pavel Blokhine
Date: 19:16:33 02/19/03
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On February 19, 2003 at 18:27:49, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On February 19, 2003 at 17:42:53, Pavel Blokhine wrote: > >>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. > > >If it is a NUMA machine, the dual will probably kill it until the program is >modified to >work on that kind of architecture. In a classic NUMA machine, it is possible >for 32 processors >to run slower than one processor, if memory usage is not very carefully >controlled. Ok thank you. But what sort of computer you would say is considerably more powerful than your dual?
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