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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