mwilkins@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Mark Wilkins) (03/29/90)
In article <1990Mar29.101949.18049@oracle.com> csimmons@oracle.com writes: [ Describes relative Mandelbrot set benchmarks of parallel computers ] > A Sequent Symmetry (at least the one I benchmarked) gets at > most .5 Mandelflops per CPU. [ Goes on to define the "Mandelflop" as an MFlop when one measures the operations in the inner loop of a mandelbrot set, a benchmark which appears generous compared to MFlops by Whetstone. ] Almost certainly not if you have the machine to yourself. My Macintosh II with a 16MHz processor and 2 wait-state memory gets 0.5 MFlops by Whetstone, and a Sequent runs with 0 wait-state memory. Even with operating system overhead, it's not that slow. Is it? Followups to comp.sys.sequent. -- Mark Wilkins mwilkins@jarthur.claremont.edu