nicholso@hpesoc1.HP.COM (Ron Nicholson) (10/01/87)
Does any one out there have any performance information an old computers; or references to publications with such information? I'm trying to gather some relative performance information on older and historic machines. Because of the differences in the kinds of programs run then and now, a ball park figure is all that I expect to find. Now, it's unlikely that anyone has run Drystones on an IBM 704 or Univac I. So what I'm looking for is *any* early performance measures. So far, all I've seen are references that give processor cycle times, memory sizes and such which are hard to relate to comparitive performance. Perhaps if someone had ran some numerical program on a 6600, or some such, that they now run on a PC this could provide a direct performance measure. Or if someone ported a program from historical machine A to a more recent machine and noted that it ran X% faster. If similar programs run Y% faster on the manufacturer current machines and some sythentic benchmark puts this machine at Z% of an 11/780, then we might at least have an order of magnitude idea that the historical machine is about 1/(X*Y*Z) mips for that class of programs. I'll post a summary if requested, unless, of course, I don't receive any information to summarize. Ronald H. Nicholson, Jr. Hewlett Packard ...ucbvax!hplabs!hpda!nicholso
lamaster@pioneer.UUCP (10/01/87)
In article <5030005@hpesoc1.HP.COM> nicholso@hpesoc1.HP.COM (Ron Nicholson) writes: >Does any one out there have any performance information an old >computers; or references to publications with such information? Not for systems as old the 704, but SOME machines from the 6600 on have been in Dongarra's famous Linpack benchmark results. Hugh LaMaster, m/s 233-9, UUCP {topaz,lll-crg,ucbvax}! NASA Ames Research Center ames!pioneer!lamaster Moffett Field, CA 94035 ARPA lamaster@ames-pioneer.arpa Phone: (415)694-6117 ARPA lamaster@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov (Disclaimer: "All opinions solely the author's responsibility")