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Article #21875Re: The Killer Micro From Hell
From: csimmons Charles Simmons
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 1989 00:00
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 1989 00:00
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In article <42527@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> brooks@maddog.llnl.gov (Eugene Brooks) writes: [Description of a benchmark comparing the performance of a Cray versus the performance of an R6000.] >My main reason to reponding to this article is that there are a lot >of people with their heads in the sand who still think that traditional >supercomputers or mainframes are good buys. I hate to see people get >bushwacked by Killer Micros when they can just ride the wave. Killer >Micro powered systems are no longer just more cost effective, for >scalar application codes they are faster... > >brooks@maddog.llnl.gov, brooks@maddog.uucp The comparison would be slightly more interesting if an Amdahl 5990 were compared to the R6000. For scalar processing, Amdahl mainframes are (were?) generally considered the fastest obtainable... -- Chuck
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!oracle!news From: csimmons@.com (Charles Simmons) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: The Killer Micro From Hell Message-ID: <1989Dec28.000031.14774@oracle.com> Date: 28 Dec 89 00:00:31 GMT References: <42007@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> <3090@umn-d-ub.D.UMN.EDU> <42527@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> Reply-To: csimmons@oracle.UUCP (Charles Simmons) Organization: Oracle Corporation, Belmont, CA Lines: 18