RE: [GENERAL] Performance

I'd like to see that URL. :)
    -DEJ

> -----Original Message-----
> From: The Hermit Hacker [mailto:scrappy@hub.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 1999 12:43 PM
> To: Dustin Sallings
> Cc: Jason; 'psql'; Aaron Holtz (E-mail)
> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Performance
>
>
> On Tue, 30 Mar 1999, Dustin Sallings wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 30 Mar 1999, The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> >
> > # Using the rc5 client as a 'benchmark' (what else has
> programmers working
> > # hard to optimize their code to get the best numbers on
> it?), we found
> > # that when comparing a Dual-PII 450 against an Sparc
> E450/400Mhz, the
> > # E450 came in at ~30% less powerful then the Dual-PII ...
> >
> >     That's a *horrible* benchmark.  How often do your servers sit
> > around doing math inside of cache?  This isn't raytracing.
>
>     My servers do more math inside of cache then they do
> raytracing...
> :)
>
>     Anyway, regardless...for the price of that one Sparc E450 we
> picked up, I could pick up *easily* a dozen Dual-PII 450
> servers, and run
> something like Beowulf on it to do the raytracing...
>
>     Wait, isn't that what IBM just did?  Built a Beowulf cluster of
> Netfnity servers for ~$150k, that outperformed a $5.5Million
> Cray?  And, I
> *thought* they did something like raytracing with it...I
> can't remmeber
> the full article, but it was ... enlightening.  If you want me to dig
> aruond and find the URL to it, please ask...
>
> >     It's nicknamed ``Slowaris'' for the same reason FreeBSD is
> > nicknamed, ``FleaBeastie'' and Linux is nicknamed
> ``Linsux'' and HP-UX is
> > nicknamed ``HP-SUX'' etc...
> >
>
>     Welp, I've been educated today then...I didn't know FreeBSD or
> Linux had nicknames :)
>
>
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