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Re: Darwin on Alpha?

So someone is porting Darwin to Alpha? Does this mean Cray can use Darwin
instead of Linux for its "super-cluster" technology which is basically
Alphas with beowulf clustering?


On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, John Clements wrote:

> At 2:34 PM -0800 1/27/01, Jim Roepcke wrote:
> >Apologies in advance for continuing this useless thread.
> >
> >on 27/01/2001 12:42 PM, Timothy A. Seufert at email@hidden wrote:
> >
> >> You have been sadly misinformed.
> >>
> >> CPU SPECint95 SPECfp95
> >> 604e 250 MHz 11.1 8.8
> >
> >11.1 / 250 = .0444
> >8.8 / 250 = .0352
> >
> >> 7400 450 MHz 21.4 20.4
> >
> >21.4 / 450 = .04755555556
> >20.4 / 450 = .04533333333
> >
> >> Alpha 21164 600 MHz 19.3 28.5
> >
> >19.3 / 600 = .03216666667
> >28.5 / 600 = .0475
> >
> >> The 21264 is clearly the strongest processor MHz for MHz on the
> >>market today.
> >
> >Unless you run it in California where the electricity costs of running that
> >Alpha would clearly make the 604e or G4 a better performer $ for $.
> >
> >How does the saying go? "Money talks, .... walks." ;-)
>
> Purely in the interests of fairness, I think you ought to include the
> processor that Tim actually claimed was fastest:
>
>
> > Alpha 21264 667 MHz 40.1 83.6
>
> 40.1 / 667 = 0.060
> 83.6 / 667 = 0.125
>
> > Alpha 21264 833 MHz 50.0 100.0
>
> 50.0 / 833 = 0.060
> 100.0 / 833 = 0.120
>
> So, I'm not arguing one side or the other, but Tim's data would
> suggest that the 21264 is indeed quite fast, and that Jim neglected
> the message's primary content. Ah well.
>
> john clements
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