Lies, damned lies, and benchmarks: RS6000 v. SS-1+
Dan Packman
pack at acd.acd.ucar.edu
Sat Feb 2 04:29:48 AEST 1991
RE: reports of slow programs and difficulty porting to RS6000 versus
Sparcstation 1+
If the application used details of system internals or depended on features
not yet present in AIX (eg, diskquotas), then porting might be a problem.
For what it is worth, I have recently finished benchmarking a *real*
application [The application is a line-by-line infrared radiance calculation]
on several platforms. The results were (minutes:seconds):
CRAY XMP ~3:00
IBM RS6000/320 14:45
DEC 5500 23:26
Solbourne 5E/802I 51:30
Sparcstation 1 86:46
Standard fortran programs port easily. System throughput is excellent.
PS: Standard disclaimers.
Dan Packman NCAR INTERNET: pack at ncar.UCAR.EDU
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