Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 20:41:42 02/19/03
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On February 19, 2003 at 22:16:33, Pavel Blokhine wrote: >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? Multi-Itanium2 boxes (but not the big 64-way and so forth boxes that are NUMA. Multi-alpha boxes. MIPS-based might do well in the (say) power-challenge type platform... HP I don't know about...
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