Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 11:05:41 01/23/00
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On January 23, 2000 at 13:48:14, Robert Hyatt wrote: >there are good PC-based FORTRAN compilers. And in fact I did this. On a >Cray cpu running at (back then about 80 megahertz (12.5ns clock cycle cray-1) >we ran at over 20K nodes per second on a single CPU. I ran this on a 133mhz >P5 and could not hit 100 nodes per second. Don't try to confuse people. You have said many times that CB used a lot of vectorized Cray assembly. Expecting this to run reasonably fast on a PC is obviously stupid. The POWER3 processor is not significantly different from a PC processor. (Well, it's probably significantly slower.) There is no reason why the DB software wouldn't run well on a PC. -Tom
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