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Path: nntp.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!skynet.be!hermes.visi.com!news-out.visi.com!europa.netcrusader.net!205.231.236.10!newspeer.monmouth.com!nntp2.deja.com!nnrp1.deja.com!not-for-mail From: clagman@yahoo.com Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.alpha Subject: Re: Alpha 21264 vs. AMD K7 Date: Wed, 08 Sep 1999 05:59:27 GMT Organization: Deja.com - Share what you know. Learn what you don't. Lines: 27 Message-ID: <7r4tvr$r2t$1@nnrp1.deja.com> References: <37D2855D.56BC4FD1@technologist.com> <7r2qri$911$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <37D4F74E.F03F89C9@home.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.66.34.111 X-Article-Creation-Date: Wed Sep 08 05:59:27 1999 GMT X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.61 [en] (Win95; I) X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x40.deja.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 129.66.34.111 X-MyDeja-Info: XMYDJUIDclagman Xref: nntp.stanford.edu comp.os.linux.alpha:12774 In article <37D4F74E.F03F89C9@home.com>, "Robert (Bob) McGwier" <rwmcgwier@home.com> wrote: > Did you forget alpha linux or were you dis'ing it on purpose? If so, > why? > Oh no...I sure didn't mean to. LINUX is very nice (because I like UNIX so much) but more of the applications I use (network adminitrative yada blah) are written for Solaris or UNIX. The thing about LINUX that is so nice is that is makes for very cheap CPU farms (beowulf clusters) as a matter of fact for a mere $55,000 you can purchase a beowulf cluster with 8 nodes, each node containing a 500Mhz 21264 loaded with 4 meg cache and lots o goodies. With 8 nodes you should be able to hit a SpecFP95 of around 150 easy (or theoretical peak at 16 GFLOPS). > clagman@yahoo.com wrote: > > > Well to be brutally honest aside from integer processing the 21264 > > running at 500Mhz is 2 times faster running specfp95 as compared to the > > 600Mhz K7. The Pro-E bench shows somewhat less but yeshhh. Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Share what you know. Learn what you don't.