Re: Suggestions for Unix Megaflop Power?

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From: Russell Fulton;ccc032u
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1992 08:01

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dvh@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (David Hawke) writes:

>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

For single cpu throughtput I believe RS6000 as best value in the midrange --
as apposed to multicpu where SGI are top. If you are not in a hurry then
keep an eye on the new Alpha machines from Dec.The promise very good floating
point performance. Peter Hunter in our Engineering Science Dept has an
order for one as soon as Dec can supply, or so I have been told. 

Russell.
-- 
Russell Fulton, Computer Center, University of Auckland, New Zealand.
<rj_fulton@aukuni.ac.nz>

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Subject: Re: Suggestions for Unix Megaflop Power?
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From: russell@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Russell Fulton;ccc032u)
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