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Article #3034Re: Floating point performance
From: Robert Montante
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1986 17:02
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1986 17:02
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>> Mflops Per MHz
>> [...]
>Mflops:(Millions of FLoating point OPerations per Second)
>MHz: (Millions of cycles per second)
>
>Therefore 'Mflops per MHz':(Millions^2 FLoating point OPeration cycles per
> sec^2)
>
>Sounds like an acceleration to me. Must be a measure of how fast computer
>speed is improving. Still, the choice of units forces this number to
>be small. 8-)
I get: 10e6 X FLoating_point_OPerations / second
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10e6 X Cycles / second
which reduces to
FLoating_point_OPerations / Cycle
an apparent measure of instruction complexity. But then, if you use a Floating
Point Accelerator, perhaps these interpretations are consistent. 8->
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Indiana University
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!columbia!rutgers!caip!clyde!cbatt!ihnp4!inuxc!iuvax!bobmon From: bobmon@iuvax.UUCP (Robert Montante) Newsgroups: net.arch Subject: Re: Floating point performance Message-ID: <1661@iuvax.UUCP> Date: Fri, 17-Oct-86 13:02:20 EDT Article-I.D.: iuvax.1661 Posted: Fri Oct 17 13:02:20 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 18-Oct-86 23:07:01 EDT References: <340@euroies.UUCP> <1989@videovax.UUCP> <722@mips.UUCP> <8184@sun.uucp> <8575@lanl.ARPA> Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington Lines: 27 Summary: some more dimensional analysis