[geeks] New Itanium machines from SGI

[Dave McGuire]

   Someone's archived copy of an old SPECtable somewhere.  The spec.org 
database server was unreachable when I looked for it this morning.  The 
SPEC/cyc figures came from my calculator, though. ;)

         -Dave

On Tuesday, January 7, 2003, at 07:21 AM, Kevin wrote:
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> Dave, where did this info come from?
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> /KRM
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> On Wed, 8 Jan 2003 07:09:55 -0500
> Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wednesday, January 8, 2003, at 03:04 AM, Mike
>> Meredith wrote:
>>> I wouldn't be surprised if it is true ... MIPS is
>>> hardly a speed demon anymore.
>>
>>    Umm, compared to what, exactly?  These are the
>>    numbers that I see.
>>
>> proc			clock	SPECint	/cyc	SPECfp	/cyc
>> -----------------------------------------------------
>> R12000			 400	353		0.882	407		1.017
>> R14000			 500	427		0.854	463		0.926
>> PA-8700			 750	604		0.805	576		0.768
>> POWER3-II		 450	316		0.702	409		0.909
>> Alpha EV67		 833	584		0.701	658		0.790
>> UltraSPARC-III	 900	467		0.518	482		0.964
>> Itanium			 800	404		0.505	711		0.889
>> Pentium-III		1000	462		0.462	340		0.340
>> Athlon			1400	554		0.396	458		0.327
>> Pentium-4		1700	586		0.344	608		0.358
>>
>>    Granted this is old information (I know the R14000
>>    is available in at
>> least a 600MHz version now) but the numbers don't
>> lie, man.
>>
>>       -Dave
>>
>> --
>> Dave McGuire           "She's a cheek pincher.  I
>> have scars." St. Petersburg, FL
>>    -Gary Nichols
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Dave McGuire           "She's a cheek pincher.  I have scars."
St. Petersburg, FL                          -Gary Nichols