Re: Suggestions for Unix Megaflop Power?

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From: David Hawke
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 05:11

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nholford@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Nick Holford) writes:

>I am currently running a number crunching application on a Sun 4/330.
>I know this application's performance is predicted well by LINPAK
>megaflops. I need faster execution and would appreciate suggestions
>for Unix systems supported in New Zealand. Please let me know if you
>can recommend a system in the following price ranges:
>    NZ$ <= 25,000
>    NZ$  > 25,000  and <= 50,000
>    NZ$  > 50,000  and <= 100,000
>    NZ$  > 100,000 and <= 150,000
>RAM and Disk space requirements are moderate (8 Mb and 200 Mb beyond
>standard system needs).
>Please let me know the Mflop rating of the system because this will be the
>major criterion for a selection.

>-- 

>Nick Holford, Dept Pharmacology & Clinical Pharmacology
>University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
>INTERNET: n.holford@aukuni.ac.nz

Both HP and Silicon Graphics have boxes to us in the 25-50K range with 16-32Mb
RAM and 400+Mb of disk.

From memory, MFLOPS are
    HP9000/710 colour     12  : about 25K
    HP9000/720 colour     17  : about 40K
    HP9000/730 colour     22  : about 50K

    SiGr Indigo Iris      6   : about 30K

You could also look at the RS6000 range - a bit more expensive for performance
between the SiGr and HP ranges

David Hawke, Geography
dvh@geografx.aukuni.ac.nz
dvh@aukuni.ac.nz

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Subject: Re: Suggestions for Unix Megaflop Power?
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From: dvh@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (David Hawke)
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 05:11:30 GMT
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