LINUX on P-II 266Mhz

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From: Andrew Mc.Ghee
Date: Sat, 01 Nov 1997 00:00

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A while a go we promised to post results of our experiences with LINUX
operating on new ASUS P2L97 440LX based motherboards. This system
appears to be quite stable and runs well - our previous systems where
PPro-180 machines. We are an educational system, and use LINUX only for
number-crunching (our system is a cluster of these machines working
together as a parallel machine), so our results are heavily biased in
this favour.

Compared with our previous PPro-180 (440FX based motherboards with EDO
RAM) machines, the PII-266 is around 1.45 times faster. This speed
increase was observed by running an in-house developed Computational
Fluid Dynamics code that uses large amounts of memory and is FPU
intensive. Our concerns over cache slowdowns and instabilities in new
(440LX with SDRAM) based hardware appear to be unfounded - the system
has been rock-solid for the last 7 days (RedHat 4.2 with some module
upgrades).

regards,
Andrew Mc.Ghee
Mechanical Engineering
University of Queensland

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From: "Andrew Mc.Ghee" <mcghee@sun.mech.uq.edu.au>
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Date: 1997/11/01
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