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Article #11050Re: More Alpha AXP Performance Numbers
From: Volker Herminghaus-Shirai
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 17:33
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 17:33
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In article <Bxo927.ECF.2@cs.cmu.edu> lindsay+@cs.cmu.edu (Donald Lindsay) writes:
>
> In article <Bxo6rI.C89.2@cs.cmu.edu> I wrote:
> >Probably for the same reason one would buy an Amdahl - big IO, big
> >memory, big caches
>
> Just to rub the point in: the DEC 10000 AXP has:
>
> - 6 processors
> - 2 to 14 GB of ECC RAM
> - up to 4 Futurebus+ IO busses
> - up to 8 FDDI (100 Mb/s network) links
> - up to 56 GB of in-cabinet disk
> - up to 284 GB of directly attached disk
> - up to 10,000 GB of in-cluster disk
> - 800 MB/s "system interconnect"
> - 400 MB/s I/O bandwidth
> - support for HIPPI,CI,XMI,...
> - Integrated Uninterruptible Power System
yes, but...
...can it run MS-DOS?
;-)
--
Volker Herminghaus-Shirai (vhs@rhein-main.de)
Computer industry: Industry in which the number of units sold of any
given product is inversely proportional to its technical excellence.
See also: MS-DOS, Windows, IBM-PC, X, QWERTY,
80x86, TrueType, Survival of the shittest.
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Newsgroups: comp.arch Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!pacbell.com!sgiblab!darwin.sura.net!jvnc.net!yale.edu!ira.uka.de!ira.uka.de!smurf.sub.org!incom!orfeo!qb!vhs From: vhs@rhein-main.de (Volker Herminghaus-Shirai) Subject: Re: More Alpha AXP Performance Numbers Message-ID: <1992Nov16.173306.9663@qb.rhein-main.de> Sender: vhs@qb.rhein-main.de (Volker Herminghaus-Shirai) Reply-To: vhs@rhein-main.de References: <Bxo927.ECF.2@cs.cmu.edu> Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 17:33:06 GMT Lines: 39