RE: [GENERAL] Performance

http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayStory.pl?99039.ecsuperlinux.htm

On Tue, 30 Mar 1999, Jackson, DeJuan wrote:

> 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 :)
> > 
> > 
> > Marc G. Fournier                   ICQ#7615664               
> > IRC Nick: Scrappy
> > Systems Administrator @ hub.org 
> > primary: scrappy@hub.org           secondary: 
> > scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org 
> > 
> > 
> 

Marc G. Fournier                   ICQ#7615664               IRC Nick: Scrappy
Systems Administrator @ hub.org 
primary: scrappy@hub.org           secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org